Peace, even if not perfect, is precious

Peace, even if not perfect, is precious The then Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and SDLP leader John Hume.

Three decades on from the IRA ceasefire, it’s right to recall the role played by prominent priests writes Michael Kelly It would become an iconic image of the terrible civil conflict on our island we euphemistically call ‘the Troubles’. Redemptorist Fr Alec Reid kneeling reciting the last rites for two British soldiers who had just…

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