reasoning that Jesus "befriended sinners in order to redeem them". In 1991 the CLMC called a ceasefire. Although this ultimately lasted only a very short time Magee was encouraged by the development and sought to work with the body to restore peace. Magee was also dealt with the British government and delivered messages between them and the loyalists, serving as the only conduit of information between the two for a time. Later, at the request of UDA leadership, Magee also put them in contact with Archibshop Robin Eames, the Primate of the Church of Ireland, who also liaised between the government and the UDA. As an individual Magee also had a direct line to Albert Reynolds and was able to report loyalist aims and grievances to the Taoiseach. On 14 February 1992 he arranged a meeting with the organisation's ruling Inner Council at which the six brigadiers discussed the possibility of a ceasefire with Magee, Godfrey Brown and Jack Weir, the latter both former moderators of the Presbyterian Church. The meeting accomplished little but Magee kept contact with the UDA open. Magee's main point of contact was Ray Smallwoods and the two kept in regular touch, although Magee considered ending all contact following the October 1993 Greysteel massacre, the random nature of which disgusted him. He informed the Inner Council that he was finished with them but they pleaded for him to keep the contact open. Magee eventually decided to keep open his contact with Smallwoods and later credited the Ulster Democratic Party leader as "one of the key people who saw the necessity to end it all". Magee worked closely with Chris Hudson, a Dublin trade unionist who liaised with the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) on similar levels to Magee did with the UDA. Nonetheless Magee had links to some UVF figures, notably Gusty Spence whom Magee introduced to a number of leading Republic of Ireland business figures just before the ceasefire. The ceasefire was announced at Fernhill House on 13 October 1994 when Spence read out a statement from the CLMC flanked by Progressive Unionist Party colleagues Jim McDonald and William "Plum" Smith and Ulster Democratic Party members Gary McMichael, John White and Davy Adams. Subsequent activity Magee served on the Parades Commission and was also a senior research Fellow of the University of Ulster, having retired as an active minister in 1995. His efforts in peace-making saw