Sir, - So the "brave and patriotic warriors" (definition of Oglaigh) have attempted to explain away the massacre of the innocents at Omagh, on the Feast of the Assumption, when they turned the joyous carnival atmosphere streets of this peace-loving town into a bloody slaughterhouse. And all in the alleged name of an United Ireland.
No one could want an united Ireland whose "warriors" bomb innocent men, women and children - even the unborn - into Kingdom Come. We can have no truck with those callous murderers and their pathetic excuses, that ring so hollow.
I wonder how they can sleep at night, with the scenes of carnage, bits of butchered bodies, and the screams of the dying and maimed, witnessed on our screens as a result of their deeds. Are they proud of their "bravery"? Or do they imagine that the path to the promised land lies through a Red Sea of blood, tears and pain? Through the brutal cutting off of so many beautiful lives? Through so much awful grief, agony and suffering?
Their abominable acts must be repudiated with the utmost abhorrence and both Governments, North and South, must not accept, merely a "suspension" but a total and permanent cessation of hostilities so that a just and lasting peace can be arrived at, with God's help, through the work of the constitutionally elected assembly. - Yours, etc., Vera Hughes,
Moate,
Co Westmeath.