A report for UTV Live following the previous day's devastating bomb in the Docklands area of London which dramatically brought to an end the IRA ceasefire. While it may have been thought that such an event would kill off the peace process, all the major players are determined to continue on, and the British security minister, Sir John Wheeler, appears to strike a more conciliatory note than might have been expected. He insists that the door was still open for talks with Sinn Fein if violence was renounced and ended.

Meanwhile David Trimble urges loyalist paramilitaries not to respond to the return to bombing from the IRA and to hold their own ceasefires. Gary McMichael of the UDP, representing the UDA, urges Catholic citizens to isolate the IRA to avoid the country sliding back into violence.

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