Dissident terror - Nip this cancer in the bud

It would be wrong to hope that we might escape from our past but surely it is not asking too much to be able to put it aside and concentrate on building a better future for everyone on this island?

We all know that for long periods our history was a litany of disappointment and too often injustice, displacement, oppression, occupation and sometimes atrocities far worse than are comfortable to recall.

That, however, does not mean it, and the hatred it can provoke and sustain, can continue to intrude into our present in unwelcome, undemocratic, unrepresentative, intolerable and predictably bigoted ways.