The President, Mrs McAleese, yesterday welcomed Mr Gerry Adams's statement rejecting violence. She called it an important building block in the peace process.
"I think his contribution has been a very important building block to that process. It's one of thousands of building blocks which will be needed," she said.
The President told a television interviewer that the Omagh massacre had been "probably the lowest point of my life", and repeated her message that it had caused a political realignment.
"People power in the wake of Omagh gave a very, very clear message to that tiny nut of men and women of violence. They got their message emphatically that they will not win. Their day is over."