Hi Rob my guess would be editors who sympathize with the British position  Collins is something of a hero to the British and the Protestant right wingers in Ireland and are remnants of the former Protestant ruling class since he signed the treaty to end the Irish War of Independence that created the Irish Free State  Sinn Fein and the IRA the left wingers and Catholic were against it and viewed Collins as a traitor  The Civil War resulted  The IRA assassinated him  The treaty allowed the British to still subjugate the Irish  Lloyd George and Winston Churchill were ecstatic  Eamon de Valera and Sinn Fein were not  They wanted a Republic and to be rid of the British entirely  The British and the Irish Protestants are still big Collins fans  Downplaying his Catholicism in fact virtually eliminating the religious aspects of the conflict is something the British do  Its PR