Treating bomber’s family the same as victim’s families ignores hatred passed down for generations - Trevor Ringland
, when he said, “There was nothing achieved through the use of violence that could not otherwise have been achieved through peaceful means.”
Treating the bomber’s family the same as the family of the bombed ignores that the hatreds that lay behind their actions were often passed down the generations. We forget that every hunger striker’s family, for example, was divided between those who wanted their loved one to live and those who said they had to die for the cause.Scotland’s neglected island communities: ‘London ignores us, Edinburgh hates us’There are other reasons to reject the scheme too.
Trevor Ringland in action for Ireland at the first Rugby World Cup in 1987. Photograph: Billy Stickland/Inpho As we shape our future that challenge needs to be maintained, though also guided by a realistic pragmatism encapsulated in the words of a unionist councillor about one of his Sinn Féin colleagues when he said to me, “Trevor, I will work with the guy but please don’t ask me to be his best friend. Several years ago he set me up to be murdered”.
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