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Moriarty, Gerry
3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Tremendous relief for Northern Ireland
The Saville report's conclusion that the victims of Bloody Sunday were innocent comes as a great relief for all those affected and heals the wounds of Irish history, writes the conservative daily The Irish Times: "For weeks now the Bloody Sunday families and the people of Derry have been living on their nerves, carrying a heavy weight of tension and expectation as well as a fear that what Lord Saville produced might be ambivalent, that it could give ammunition to those who would wish the families ill. But there was no equivocation from Lord Saville and this was bolstered by what can only be described as a powerful statement and apology in the House of Commons from British prime minister David Cameron at 3.30 pm. It left a big impression on the families. It was generous and unambiguous. That too is assisting the healing process. When this admission of unjustified killings and the apology from the British government and the British people were relayed by television screen to the people standing outside the Guildhall in Derry, there was a loud cheer and a collective massive sigh of relief. After 38 years the innocence of the dead and injured on Bloody Sunday was officially known to the world."
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IMC report offers 'opportunity' for N. Ireland
Northern editor Gerry Moriarty says that the "real push to create a power-sharing government in Northern Ireland three-and-a-half years after the last one collapsed began in earnest yesterday with the publication of the IMC's [Independent Monitoring Commission] report". The report found no evidence that the IRA leadership had sanctioned any violent activity in the three months to the end of February. "The IRA has a responsibility to make this opportunity work, but so has the DUP [Democratic Unionist Party], the governments agree. If [the DUP leader, Ian Paisley] plays for too much then the danger is that ever so slowly more IRA members will peel away to the dissidents and younger people who never really knew the Troubles will be sold the line that unionists don't want a Fenian about the place."
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The Northern Ireland peace process
Gerry Moriarty, the daily's Northern Editor, says the release on Wednesday, February 1 of two official reports offering conflicting views on the extent of arms decommisioning by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) "could cause enormous problems" for the peace process. "What must not be lost in all this analysis is the generally positive assessment by the IMC [the Independent Monitoring Commission, which found the IRA had retained some weapons] that this IRA supertanker is slowly turning in the right direction. ... Are we back to demands for more IRA decommissioning? Heaven help the political process if we are. If [Ian Paisley, leader of the loyalist Democratic Unionist party] wants to prolong the process sometime into eternity, the dispute over weapons and ammunition the IRA may or may not have in its possession has presented him with the perfect excuse for never sharing power."
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