Ireland must make peace and not war

Fergus Finlay usually writes sensibly.

His article “Not helping when France is being terrorised is not neutrality” (Irish Examiner, Nov 27) departs from this rationality. He attacks Ruth Coppinger and Mary Lou McDonald because they dared to urge caution in responding to acts of terrorism.

Of course we must condemn terrorist attacks on the US, UK, Spain, and France, yet we seem to forget our 227 Russian friends killed in the Sinai terrorist attack and the hundreds of thousands killed in the Middle East.