Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----in terms of booby trap bombs, in terms of no capacity to defend themselves and so forth. If we are to have any chance of reconciliation into the future, that acknowledgement needs to happen. The idea that, as happened last week, one would try to distinguish between the murder of a garda on this island and the murder of an RUC person on this island was incredible and basically, it was wrong. We are on an island. We want to try to develop a shared future. Part of that is the need to own up and be honest that the war of terror was, without question, not justified. The murder of RUC officers was not justified and Deputy McDonald's public statement last week to the effect that it was different because it was "in the course of the conflict" is an unacceptable position to adopt. It can also be provocative, in the context of what we have been discussing today, about rioting and the outbursts from different parts of the community.

It has been put to us that we should join the call for a Border poll.

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