PEACE PLEDGE; Catholic Churchmen in Summit with Loyalists

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Byline: DAVID YOUNG

SENIOR loyalists and Catholic clerics pledged yesterday to work together to prevent a return to full-scale violence in Northern Ireland.

The joint commitment followed a groundbreaking meeting in Armagh between the head of the Catholic Church in Ireland and representatives of the UDA-linked Ulster Political Research Group.

Cardinal Sean Brady said he had been reassured by a pledge from the loyalist delegation there would be no retaliation following last month's murders by dissident republicans.

After the meeting at his official residence at Armagh Cathedral, Cardinal Brady said: "We conveyed to the UPRG the fear that exists …