That anyone can find that article a powerful piece of writing is a strange notion. I find it, for the most part, a careless and tired regurgitation of propaganda. But that is largely a matter of opinion. That anyone can believe every word of it seems more like a simple impossibility.

Consider this.

the aura of martyrdom surrounding "Bloody Sunday" is today, an aura the rock band U2 has used to permanently enshrine members of the IRA in the roles of victim and heroic resistance fighter

U2 as supporters of the IRA? This is not the view of an outsider. This is the view of someone from another planet.

Or this.

Sinn Fein does little to address these problems. It appears to have no interest in democratic rules. In parliament, it had opponents bugged

This is not merely untrue (I hesitate to call it a lie because of the possibility that the writer actually believes it) it is the opposite of the truth. It was the leaders of Sinn F�in whose offices etc. were bugged.

All in all a fairly average piece of journalism.