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It would be foolish to say there has not been progress - but dangerous to suggest that nothing more needs to be done. Peter Robinson of the DUP has a moment of irony. Sunday Life 17 August.

His injuries will be "life altering" Anonymous source on the shooting of a PSNI man by a female colleague in what is being described as a domestic incident. Irish News 18 September.

On the specific issue of policing, and the politics of policing, Sinn Féin is firmly of the view that there needs to be an end once and for all to political policing which has been a feature of this state since partition. Sinn Féin Chief Negotiator Martin McGuinness to direct ruler Peter Hain at the Preparation for Government Committee Monday 18 September.

Michael McDowell was, unfortunately, blackguarded by a small number of people within the party. Dublin accountant Paul McKay days before he was, fortunately, reappointed as a trustee of the PD,s by their new leader Michael McDowell. Irish Times 16 September.

It is nothing short of complete moral cowardice. Gervaghy Road residents spokesperson Brendan Mac Cionnaith on the parades commission decision not to label this years Drumcree parade as contentious thus removing any restrictions on it. Irish News 16 September.

Is not the very subtext of globalisation and transnational governance the anthisesis of the notion of a national sovereignty. Tom McGurk Sunday Business Post 17 September

From Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo to Bagram, to the battlefields of Iraq and to the "black" prisons of the CIA, humiliation and beatings, rape, anal rape and murder have now become so commonplace that each new outrage is creeping into the inside pages of our newspapers. Robert Fisk. Counterpunch 16 September.

'Extremely uncomfortable' for the British government. Direct Ruler Peter Hain on the upcoming report by Police Ombudsman Nuala O'Loan on the circumstances surrounding the loyalist murder of Raymond McCord in 1997. RTE news online 18 September.

I stand with people like Margaret Thatcher. Leader in waiting of the Labour Party, Gordon Browne, on his attitude to the union with Scotland and presumably the Six Counties also? The Scotsman 15 September