GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
GIVE PEACE A CHANCE
Sir,
I would like to send my heartfelt sympathy to all the people of Omagh. The news of yesterday's terrible bomb reached me on the BBC World Service this morning.
I write this letter full knowing how my mother would have felt had she heard the news. My mother (Celeste Ray) who died a few months ago was both born and brought up in Omagh and loved the town and its people.
She was for a while a case worker in Omagh and after she left took the "Tyrone Con" for most of her life. She was baptised in the Church of Ireland but was educated at the Loreto Convent in Omagh. Her grandfather, Edward Thompson, built the hospital and later represented the town as its M.P.
I do not know what bravado or desire drove the bombers to do their terrible deed. I can only tell them that they were horribly mistaken if they thought their action would in some way bring a better outcome to the troubled history of the Province. All they have done is to cause misery and suffering and death and for that they must bear responsibility all the days of their lives and probably beyond. They have also sickened the world.
I hope with all my heart that the peace initiative will hold and that this sickening action will stay the hand of the people who command those who still hold arms, and make them think again. There is no other alternative - give peace a chance.
Ireland north and south is such a lovely place and its people now need that peace.
Yours, Brian Mathew,
Nyika,
Zimbabwe
Sir,
I would like to send my heartfelt sympathy to all the people of Omagh. The news of yesterday's terrible bomb reached me on the BBC World Service this morning.
I write this letter full knowing how my mother would have felt had she heard the news. My mother (Celeste Ray) who died a few months ago was both born and brought up in Omagh and loved the town and its people.
She was for a while a case worker in Omagh and after she left took the "Tyrone Con" for most of her life. She was baptised in the Church of Ireland but was educated at the Loreto Convent in Omagh. Her grandfather, Edward Thompson, built the hospital and later represented the town as its M.P.
I do not know what bravado or desire drove the bombers to do their terrible deed. I can only tell them that they were horribly mistaken if they thought their action would in some way bring a better outcome to the troubled history of the Province. All they have done is to cause misery and suffering and death and for that they must bear responsibility all the days of their lives and probably beyond. They have also sickened the world.
I hope with all my heart that the peace initiative will hold and that this sickening action will stay the hand of the people who command those who still hold arms, and make them think again. There is no other alternative - give peace a chance.
Ireland north and south is such a lovely place and its people now need that peace.
Yours, Brian Mathew,
Nyika,
Zimbabwe
Further Information
Publisher: TYRONE CONSTITUTION
Ref: TC/0528
Published Date: 03-Sep-98
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