"would you be so keen to forgive and forget?"
So what do you suggest Dave, and would it include the soldiers who gunned down unarmed demonstrators on Bloody Sunday?
The priest, if he did participate in the bombing was a criminal (now dead) - so were all the others (on both sides), who participated in such actions, (Grey Steel, Monoghan, Dublin, Derry, Belfast, Harrods, Birmingham, Guildford....) the list is awesome.
Nobody came out of that period with clean hands, the churches (of all persuasions), politicians, police, soldiers, paramilitaries (again on both sides)... all participated in the slaughter and carried out inhuman acts.
What should happen now, public hanging or let the peace process take its course?
I know where my vote would go.
Jim Carroll