Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, has strongly condemned gangland violence.In a sermon to Easter mass goers, he contrasted the spate of murders in his diocese with the hope of peace offered by developments in Northern Ireland.
Archbishop Martin was preaching at the Easter Vigil Mass in Dublin's Pro-Cathedral and condemned Friday night's killing, saying that responding to evil only generates another act of evil.
He said: 'Again this morning in Dublin we have had a gangland murder.
'We see again the terrible domino process of how responding to evil-by-evil only generates in its turn another act of evil, a never-ending cascade of retribution.
'I remind once again all those who believe that they can impose their rule by violence that by imposing the rule of violence on others all they are doing is closing themselves into the grip of a violence from which there is no way out.
'The way of violence leads only to death.
'On the other hand we see a glimmer of hope in the fact that the pattern of violence which long dominated Northern Ireland is coming to an end and there is a genuine feeling that what had seemed an 'impossible peace' can be established and consolidated.'
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