GFA stood on the shoulders of those giants who defied terror and who ultimately were vindicated in pursuing peace
The following is an abridged version of a speech I made in Belfast last night to the Peace Train Organisation… If you’d told the teenage leftist, entirely English too, that I would spend years working against terror with bedfellows in many parties on both sides of the Irish Sea, I’d have been surprised. When I joined Labour in 1976, I initially swallowed the position that the root cause of the Troubles was partition, and that Irish unification was the solution. I overcame …