THE bomb atrocity in Manchester on Saturday both saddens and enrages me. The outrage must be seen for what it is.

The Warrington bomb was planted on the Saturday before Mothers' Day.

The bombers knew full well that children would be out in the shopping centre trying to buy something for their mothers.

The children who were killed and maimed are testament to the callous planned act.

Again, on the Saturday before Fathers' Day the bombers laid their trap to mutilate and destroy innocent people, with a conscious, vicious understanding that children would be injured and traumatised by this despicable calculated obscenity.

Nothing can justify or condone those who choose the innocent to impose their will on others.

How many Irish, whether in Ireland or working in England or Scotland, condone or accept this insanity.

May God curse those whose insanity puts life and peace into a bargaining chip to achieve their aim.

JOHN CRAMSIE, St Mark's Road, Blackburn.

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