Eames calls for unified response

"We've got to go on and on and on, no matter what it costs, searching for a permanent peace," the Church of Ireland Primate, …

"We've got to go on and on and on, no matter what it costs, searching for a permanent peace," the Church of Ireland Primate, Dr Robin Eames, told the BBC last night.

"If you'd lived here over the last year and a bit and had seen the way the ordinary decent people, both Protestants and Roman Catholics, had welcomed and appreciated the peace and come to understand what it could be, I don't think anyone would have doubted the fact that people want that to be permanent.

"And what I think is needed now is a total and community wide revulsion and condemnation at those who have carried this out."

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