The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland's cross-community party

 David Ford

Culture of violence must stop

12.09.27pm BST (GMT +0100) Fri 29th Sep 2006

Portrait-yellow: BOYLE Yvonne (photography: Allan Leonard)

Alliance Party Chair, Yvonne Boyle

Alliance Party Chair Yvonne Boyle has said that Northern Ireland's "culture of violence" must end after another night of attacks.

The party's Coleraine representative stated: "Yet again we wake up to news of another series of attacks. There is a real danger that we are becoming immune to this.

"The attack that took place in the Crescent Playing Fields in Coleraine, for example, has solved nothing. Once again someone has been brutally attacked for no gain.

"We cannot simply allow such activity to go on. We have to get our attitude to violence and the rule of law right, and recognize that such attacks do nothing but harm to the communities we live in."

ENDS

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