For Me, Heaven Is Likely To Be

Madam President, Speaking Here In Dublin Castle It Is Impossible To Ignore The Weight Of History, As It Was Yesterday When You And I Laid Wreaths At The Garden Of Remembrance.

Experience Shows That Great Enterprises Seldom End With A Tidy And Satisfactory Flourish. Together, We Are Doing Our Best To Re-establish Peace And Civil Order In The Gulf Region, And To Help Those Members Of Civil And Ethnic Minorities Who Continue To Suffer Through No Fault Of Their Own. If We Succeed, Our Military Success Will Have Achieved Its True Objective.

For Christians, As For All People Of Faith, Reflection, Meditation And Prayer Help Us To Renew Ourselves In God's Love, As We Strive Daily To Become Better People. The Christmas Message Shows Us That This Love Is For Everyone. There Is No One Beyond Its Reach.

We All Need To Get The Balance Right Between Action And Reflection. With So Many Distractions, It Is Easy To Forget To Pause And Take Stock.

In Remembering The Appalling Suffering Of War On Both Sides, We Recognise How Precious Is The Peace We Have Built In Europe Since 1945.