Nationalists want peace too, says Ahern

Nationalists want to see the transition from violence to exclusively peaceful and democratic means fulfilled, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern claimed today.

In an address to the Forum for Peace and Reconciliation in Dublin Castle, involving politicians on both sides of the border, Mr Ahern said it was “insulting” to paint demands for an end to paramilitary activity as a unionist ultimatum.