Victims campaigner Alan McBride says we need to move on from talk to action about reconciliation

A leading Sinn Fein figure has acknowledged the horror of the IRA's Shankill bombing, saying there is no excuse for the human loss and suffering caused that day. The party's National Chair Declan Kearney was speaking about reconciliation and dealing with the past at a Sinn Fein summer school in Cork. But is this use of language enough or is it now time to start going further in the process of dealing with the past? The speech is the latest stage of a party initiative on reconciliation issues. It also contained a challenge to unionism, asking where is its "big thinking". Alan McBride lost his wife and father-in-law in the Shankill Bombing. He has welcomed Mr Kearney's comments and says they mean a lot to him personally. He also said we need to move on from talk and progress to establishing a process of reconciliation for victims.