Loyalist Commission appeals to republicans for calm

A COMMISSION which includes loyalist paramilitaries yesterday called on republican terror groups to join them in achieving calm along sectarian flashpoint areas.

After a summer of almost nightly street violence, the Loyalist Commission echoed the call for calm of the Anglican Primate of All Ireland, Archbishop Robin Eames.

The commission, made up of terror group representatives, politicians and churchmen, admitted Loyalist paramilitaries had been involved in causing trouble along Belfast’s peace line but “only in a defensive capacity.”