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"Madam President, I want to say some words about Martin O'Hagan, the journalist murdered in Northern Ireland a couple of days ago. He was a fearless journalist who over many years tirelessly illuminated that twilight world where gangsters and political terrorism and political extremism intersect. He has paid the ultimate price for his bravery.
It is an unfortunate fact of our life in this world today that many hundreds of journalists die virtually every year in pursuit of their vocation of serving and informing the public. This does not happen so often in democratic societies and it is particularly worrying, therefore, that journalists in Northern Ireland are at risk in this way. The few words I have said about Martin O'Hagan are entirely inadequate to convey the shock and the horror that people of all political and religious persuasions in Ireland feel at this horrible deed.
I should like to link this with other matters we have debated at previous part-sessions – indeed I am sure we will be debating them again this week – and make an appeal about the language we use to describe these terrorists. We should stop referring to them as Protestants, Catholics or Muslims: they are political extremists. It is important that we make that distinction.
The individuals concerned adhere to one or other religion, or have no religion, but their objectives are political, and the one common thing that unites them is their contempt for democracy and humanity."@en1
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