Scared? The steady rise of Sinn Fein in the Irish political firmament continues to scare members of the Twenty-Six County establishment. Latest to suffer an attack of the willies was Willie O'Day, Minister of State in the Department of Justice, who expressed his opinion that the advances made by Sinn Fein were putting at risk 120,000 jobs directly dependent on United States investment.

He asserted that American investors including solicitors, accountants and financial experts were worried.

"These people relayed to me growing concern at the fragmentation of the Irish political system, giving rise to the emergence of the hard Left in the form of Marxist-terrorist Sinn Fein."

At one time Irish children were threatened by invocation of the "Bogey Man".

"The Bogey Man will get you if you're not good!"

"The Bogey Man is coming to get you!"

Then the children grew up. The Bogey Man no longer scares them.

Neither will the invocation of "Marxist-terrorist Sinn Fein."

Time for a new epithet. Try "Thirty-Two County Sinn Fein". That is what is really scary to Mr. O'Day and his colleagues.

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