Mr. Raymond McCord:

The way it has become is that one has to share their opinion. I will say this quickly. I am completely in agreement with what my two friends said. In Belfast, I have had numerous death threats. The UVF made a bomb and tried to blow me up. It was not the IRA or the INLA that tried to kill me. It was people within my own community. The same people who murdered my son are in the organisation. It is amazing. I spoke with the Minister, Deputy Coveney, yesterday and invited him to come to Belfast again. I got a photo taken shaking hands with him because I want to show the people that he is not our enemy. I want to show that he is welcome up there.

Somebody from the unionist community, such as myself, can go into what people call a nationalist area in Belfast and have a pint in it. People in the Shankill Road are good people but, unfortunately, if I went into a pub on the Shankill Road, some young lad would be waiting for me with a sawed-off shotgun. Our unionist politicians would assess a terrible murder and forget about me. Our unionist politicians refuse to go against these people, but it is time they did.