Balance of terror

TOM Cooper (Letters, July 6) cannot understand why members of Reform do not write letters condemning the probable collusion between the British government and loyalist terror groups over the Dublin and Monaghan bombings.

When I was in Reform, we always made it abundantly clear that terrorism from all sides had to stop to allow for a peaceful solution to the ongoing problems that beset our country, North and South.

However, as can be seen from the following statistics, painstakingly, recorded in Malcolm Sutton’s definitive work, An Index of Deaths from the Conflict in Ireland 1969-’93 (updated and revised, October 2002), republicans were central to most of the killings that took place.