Tommy O Rourke was an old Communist who I met in 1988-9 when I moved in Communist circles in Dublin. He lived in one of those many well-appointed and modest but adequate family homes built by De Valera's governments.
He recounted to myself the facts of modern Irish political history,the IRA's connections to rentboys in the 1920's,the painting of "dead walls" with IRA slogans by young "waifs" in the same period and the development of the Revolutionary Workers Groups in the 1930's.
The Revolutionary Workers Groups were to become the Communist Party of Ireland in 1935.
Tommy told me of how when he and Minnie were absent from their home in Walkinstown on holiday,the Garda detectives would enter to inspect their home.
How did Tommy know?
Firstly,by the way,he had his recent shop receipts on the mantle piece and he recalled to me," You'd know that they had been in the house by the fact that they had placed the receipts upside down on the nail on the mantle piece."
In our time,the police and the criminals who they mix with also enter people's dwellings when they are absent.
Therefore,we say with certainty that it was not solely Russia in the 1930's, Germany in the 1940's or the US in the 1950's where the police violated property rights to sow confusion, disorder and chaos but that the class interests of the police are not compatible with a law-governed society anywhere.
Let us first of all punish these people publicly, then publicise their covert activities and expressly outlaw the named offences.
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