The day after the Stormont talks resumed with Sinn Fein now included for the first time, a bomb is exploded in the Armagh village of Markethill. This report for UTV Live details the reaction from the various parties, with David Trimble demanding that Sinn Fein be immediately excluded from the talks. Gerry Kelly of Sinn Fein speaks at a press conference regretting the attack, while Seamus Mallon has no doubt that it is essentially an attack upon the talks process.

Responsibility for the bomb was later claimed by the dissident republican group the Continuity IRA, a terrorist organisation opposed to both the talks and to ending the armed conflict. Their message was clear - that if one strand of republicanism was prepared to give up violence and enter into dialogue, another was prepared to continue the armed struggle.

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