Community unites to say goodbye to murdered Catholic policeman

Paradigm is wrong when claiming that SDLP and UU negotiated the Good Friday Agreement (there is no such thing as a Belfast Agreement). The GFA would have been a nonstarter without Ian Paisley, Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness. They were the real peacemakers. And today they continue to show the world how peace can come to difficult situations. Certainly today, McGuinness and Robertson (like Paisley before him) are showing the world how peace can be realized. Something that escaped the dwindling SDLP and UU.

I'd have to admit that I am not a fan of Cardinal Brady. I think he rightly put it up to Ronan Kerr's killers yesterday as to the offence of murder to God. Its just a shame he has not been as candid when it comes to his critique of Priest Abusers; serial and otherwise!!

Good story, guys. Can somebody correct the typo in the first paragraph i.e. 'not in vein'?

There is no doubt that Sean Cardinal Brady has to "step up" and lead. This may be a start. For the Irish in America, Ronan Kerr lives on.

So dreadfully sad for all of us. It may have been appropriate to at least acknowledge that the Leaders of the SDLP and Ulster Unionists - the Parties that negotiated the Belfast Agreement - were at the funeral. It would be doubly sad if the reasonable 'middle-ground' of Ulster politics was forgotten - that was where Ronan Kerr stood so courageously and it's the Ronan Kerr's who are breaking the traditional mould of distrust.