Fair play for all sides in North’s peace process
Every time the IRA or Sinn Féin have made a gesture or issued a statement it has not been enough.
Surely the fact that Sinn Féin is participating fully within the democratic process and that the IRA have not carried out any paramilitary attacks, says the war is over.
For the IRA to say publicly that the war is over is to say they lost and that unionism won.
This is not the way to produce a lasting settlement and to tie the IRA to the democratic process.
Also, where is the democracy in postponing elections until you get the result you want? Can Mr Blair or Mr Trimble please clarify this.
Furthermore, while Sinn Féin is keeping to its side of the Good Friday agreement, the British government is not.
Where is the fundamental reform of policing that is both required and promised?
The enquiry into RUC collusion says that senior RUC inspectors supported this strategy, yet they are still there and still obstructing justice.
Sinn Féin are right to stay off the policing board, when the people who were supposed to protect everybody, including nationalists, targeted them instead.
Jim Molloy,
Monkstown,
Cork
