Completing an Irish Peace

AOH National President Ned McGinley sent me the following note today..."The NY Times has many times ignored The Troubles in Ireland and has more often backed the London government in its interpretation of the situation in the north of Ireland. This editorial lays out the realities of the situation in the six counties today and the need for a political solution in which the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) recognize the mandate of the SDLP and Sinn Fein. It is time for politics not sectarian rhetoric to come to the forefront in six of the nine counties of Ulster and the Belfast Assembly envisioned in the Good Friday Agreement take it's lawful position and govern the North."

Here's the NYT editorial Ned referenced above, "Completing an Irish Peace."

Every day we should pray for world peace, however there has never been a better time to "raise the bar" of our prayers for peace in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Afghanistan, Africa, the Middle East and throughout the world than now during Holy Week.

P.S.: Here is a general backgrounder on the 1998 Good Friday agreement here and here.