No return to days of retaliation
The placing of an explosive device at a Roman Catholic school in Antrim town is a very sinister development, one which must be unreservedly condemned by all right-thinking people
Miraculously, no one was a casualty of this reckless action, but an eight-year-old boy risked serious injury when he picked up the device and proceeded unsuspectingly with it into a classroom.
Whichever group was responsible - and blame is being placed on rogue loyalist elements - they are acting outside the remit of a normal decent society and need to be promptly apprehended and prosecuted for their crimes.
Police have confirmed that this was a viable explosive device with the capacity to kill and maim and, with local political and community representatives, they have expressed their abhorrence at the cowardly targeting of young children in a place where they should feel most secure - a school.
The murderous activities of dissident republican groups have been well documented and the PSNI has enjoyed some relative success in arresting a significant number of suspects.
Subversive activity - even if it is portrayed as being a response to dissident activity - is just as reprehensible.
In Antrim, scene of the Real IRA murder of two soldiers in March of last year, wounds are still raw and this type of incident only serves to heighten tensions.
There must be no return to the days of tit-for-tat violence.
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