Too many concessions have been made in the search for peace in Northern Ireland, a former British Labour party minister said in a television interview this morning.
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Ms Kate Hoey, a former sports minister in a Blair cabinet, warned the British Prime Minister not neglect the peace process despite his support for action against international terrorism.
The Northern Ireland-born MP told GMTV's The Sunday Programmethe current situation in Ulster was "very, very bad".
"If there wasn't all this happening over the tragedy in America it would be headline news every day," she said.
"On the streets now in parts of Northern Ireland it is extremely bad, particularly in terms of sectarian violence from all sides - but also a fear around that the process is going down the pan.
"I was a great supporter of the peace process but I do genuinely feel that we gave too much too quickly and I'm afraid that sometimes when you appease people, instead of moving more they ask for more.
"I think it's very important that the Prime Minister does not take his eye off the situation."
Ms Hoey also accused Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams of hypocrisy.
"I heard Gerry Adams going on yesterday about terrorism and I felt like saying 'well hand us over, find us the Omagh bombers'.
"Here we had a huge tragedy in this country and we haven't got one single person and yet we're off looking in Afghanistan."
PA