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Sat 01 Jan 2010Intellectual force in the church who abhorred violence
Cardinal Cahal Daly:CARDINAL CAHAL Daly, the former Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, who has died aged 92, was one of the Catholic Church’s most outspoken critics of political violence in Northern Ireland.
In 1969, with the outbreak of violence in the North, he took up a theme which would dominate the rest of his career – political violence in Ireland. In his 1972 New Year’s Day address, he urged a more balanced reading of history, allowing greater justice to the contribution to Irish freedom and democracy of peaceful, constitutional movements.
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