Read Next:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n She said: \u201cI was chased away from one door with shouts of \u2018Fenian B******\u2019 ringing in my ears\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n She added that there were \u201cwhispers percolating around the constituency that I was an active supporter of the IRA.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The former First Minister said: \u201c It was deeply unpleasant and an unwelcome education in the darker \u2018arts\u2019 of political campaigning.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The MSP recalled: \u201cAlthough I had grown up in Ayrshire, I had never experienced the depth of sectarianism I encountered in parts of Govan.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n She said the sectarianism was \u201cparticularly perplexing\u201d given she had \u201cgrown up, nominally at least, as a Protestant in the Church of Scotland.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n What the abuse did was, she said, let her see what others had to endure.\n<\/p>\n
\n She said: \u201cIt was also horribly eye-opening to (see) what the Irish Catholic community has suffered for far too long.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n The root of the abuse, she said appeared to be because her campaign team would frequent the Govan Arms Pub, which she was known to be \u201cstrongly Celtic<\/a> supporting\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The book, due for release on Thursday this week, was put on sale by Waterstones in Glasgow on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336346","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115011474427541167","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}