Contribution To Northern Ireland
The Methodist Church and its members have made an arguably enormous contribution to the peace process in Northern Ireland. It has often been said of the Methodist Church that of all the denominations the Methodist Church have caused the least obstruction and arguably made the greatest contribution to healing in The Troubles (Senator Brian Hayes).
Dr Eric Gallagher is such an example. As president of the Methodist Church in Ireland he was the first Protestant churchman who met with IRA representatives in Feakle, County Clare in the 1970s to unsuccessfully try to broker a peace. The meeting was broken up by An Garda Síochána, but the fugitive IRA men had already left.
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