`Bloodlust' condemned

IRELAND'S Catholic Church leaders have issued strong condemnations of the latest wave of sectarian killings that have left five dead from both communities.
Cardinal Tomas O'Fiaich, the head of Ireland's Catholics, called the renewed violence in Ulster a "sad litany of grief", when he addressed more than 2,000 young people at a peace rally last week in Keady, Co Armagh. "Catholic tears are just as bitter as Protestant ones", the Cardinal said.
In the emotional homilies he delivered at two funeral Masses on the weekend, Bishop Cahal Daly of Down and Connor spoke of the "grief and heartbreak" brought on by the sectarian murders.
"There are ominous indications of the danger of a return to the sectarian bloodlust of the mid-1970's," warned the bishop on Saturday, in Belfast's St Malachy's Church, where the funeral for one Catholic victim was held.
"We ask urgently that adequate protection he afforded to this area", said Bishop Daly, describing how Belfast's Catholics "walk in fear".