When justice meant due process and a trial

I AM appalled that one of our presidential hopefuls is celebrating the West’s latest extra-judicial killing.

For Fergus Finlay (May 3), justice is something that “demands retribution and punishment”, yet, he expresses no regret that the British government did not order an invasion of the Republic after the Omagh bombing, or that they did not send hit squads in to get the people suspected of carrying out the atrocity.

Would he like to see this sort of “justice” being meted out to Irish citizens or, on calm reflection, would he agree with Robert Fisk, who wrote in the same day’s London Independent that: “In the old days, of course, justice meant due process, a court, a hearing, a defence, a trial?”