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14 April 2010

The Community Relations Council (CRC) has condemned a pipe bomb attack last night on the North Belfast home of a community relations worker who is a volunteer in a cross community project funded by the International Fund for Ireland through CRC.

Duncan Morrow, Chief Executive of the Community Relations Council, says:

‘Last night’s bomb attack was on the home of a selfless and dedicated community relations volunteer who has committed herself to helping her neighbours in the Glandore-Skegoniel area. In particular she has been involved for many years in promoting good relations across the sectarian interface and is currently active in the Skegoniel-Glandore Common Purpose Cross interface Group. The attack on the volunteer at night in her own home is an attack on all the good work she has been involved in and therefore is an attack on the communities in the area.

‘Those responsible for this attack wish to turn us back to the violence and destruction of the past. Volunteers such as the individual targeted in this attack represent a more positive vision for the future in which neighbours from a diversity of community and cultural backgrounds can live together in a shared space in cooperation and respect for each other.

‘We need to make clear that an attack on the home of community relations volunteers is an attack on everything positive and hopeful in recent years in Northern Ireland.’ 

For further information contact

Ray Mullan

90-227500