The head of a major political party is unhappy with the recent transfer of documents, considered sensitive by the government, to a college where they could be made public more easily. Would you be ticked off to hear such news? If so, you're in the same boat as Michéal Martin.
Martin, the head of one of Ireland's major parties, Fianna Fáil, sent out a statement three days ago about sensitive documents on the Irish peace process being transferred to Boston College. Uh-huh, Boston College, out of Boston, Massachusetts, in the U.S. of A.
I will be the first to admit I don't know anything about the Irish peace process, but this episode does leave me wondering, What the...? What exactly was the reasoning behind the nation's Justice Minister, Alan Shatter, in having the documents transferred across the Atlantic to a university in another country?
Mr. Martin makes two points of interest here: 1) the likelihood that getting access to the documents would be much easier at Boston College (or, for that matter, any college) and 2) the move to Boston makes it more difficult for Irishmen who may want to take a look at the documents, as they would have to travel across the Atlantic (instead of another part of the island) to do so.
To the best of my knowledge, neither Minister Shatter nor the party he represents, Fine Gael, have responded to Mr. Martin's statement. In the larger scheme of things, this may not mean much (at least not here in America), but it's one of those episodes that leaves me just scratching my head.
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