'Take a look at the children in your community and ask yourself if you want them to turn out like you. Every positive, progressive aspiration held by your community for a better future, you are holding it back.'
An Irish government minister forced to evacuate from a peace building event in Belfast after a bomb threat has returned to complete his interrupted speech.
Mr Coveney had been delivering an address at an event organised by the John and Pat Hume Foundation when the alert happened in March.The Houben Centre on the Crumlin Road was evacuated and a funeral service at nearby Holy Cross church was disrupted. "A family funeral next door at Holy Cross was disrupted also. That was a futile, cowardly exercise in community control. It serves no-one, no good purpose, except to drag the reputation of this decent community backwards to darker days.
"To the groups who cling on to the use of violence as a means of controlling and threatening their own communities and those who encourage them, I say this very directly - your communities need uplift and investment and you scare that away.
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