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19th March 2009 You are here » Home » Newsrooms » Latest News » General Site last updated 19th March 2009 Search site A Sad And Painful Week Speeches & Articles Go Reflecting on a painful week for Northern Ireland, Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Policing and Justice - Alan McFarland UUP Newsroom Nicholson has stressed the strength of cross- Latest News community and cross-party Northern Ireland Needs Leadership General opposition to dissident republican terrorism. Environment Mr. Nicholson said, "It has been a sad, painful week Text of a speech by Sir to the Health for the people of AGM of the Ulster Unionist Council on Agriculture Northern Ireland. Those of us who lived through the Saturday, May 31, 2008. Troubles hoped that Objectives and Policy such events would never again occur on our streets. Speech by Sir Reg Empey to UUP Annual Objectives We hoped that the Conference Standing up for Northern Ireland generation that came of age after 1998 would never witness what we A Competitive Economy witnessed. Instead, this past week three families have been left grieving because of the actions of evil people. Making a mess of the Maze A Northern Ireland for Everyone

Protecting our Environment "Amidst the pain and grief of this week, there have also been signs of Text of a speech to the AGM of the UUP Quality Public Services hope. On Wednesday the people of Northern Ireland in , Newry, East Antrim Constituency Association. Sir Stronger, Safer Communities Londonderry and other towns signalled their rejection of and utter Reg Empey MLA contempt for the dissident republican terrorists and their ideology of hate. On Friday, Constable Carroll's grieving family were joined by UUP Ministers politicians, civic and church leaders, and ordinary citizens from across Sir Reg Empey the entire community. Department of

Employment and Learning "The terrorists have been confronted by the new Northern Ireland - a Northern Ireland that supports the structures and institutions created in 1998, a Northern Ireland determined not to go back to a violent past, a Northern Ireland in which the entire community is committed to Michael supporting McGimpsey Department of the PSNI. Health, Social Services and Public "I know that across Europe, people have responded with sadness to the Safety news of the murders that occurred on our streets this past week - but they have also been reassured by the strength of political and popular opposition to the terrorists. It has been a painful week. But it has also been a week when the people of Northern Ireland have again told the terrorists that violence and hate will not prevail".

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