Joe O'Toole (Independent)

——and supported by Governments in both jurisdictions. Having spent 25 years trying to scramble our way out of chaos, we must stand together against those who attempt to plunge communities back into it. It is not the time to focus on minor differences of opinion.

We must take certain positive aspects from the events. We must recognise that all political parties, North and South and in the UK, have a similar view in that they are all opposed to and have condemned the actions. We should not get into further detail in that respect. Those parties, elected by their communities, have articulated their views and there can be no gainsaying that fact. We should send out a call to stand together irrespective of on which part of this island or the next island we live. Protestant and Catholic, Unionist and Nationalist, Irish, Northern Irish and British should stand together in a solid phalanx against the evil influence that is trying to divert the course of peace on the island. By the North and South working together, ordinary people can be given the confidence to know that there should be no shelter, support or cover for or rationalisation of these disgraceful acts of violence, in which two working class English soldiers, a European pizza delivery man and a young man from County Westmeath who was working for the Police Service of Northern Ireland were shot by unthinking, unforgiving people. It is not acceptable to anyone on any part of this island.