9 November 2006 Edition

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Dúirt Siad...

We're tough, the Erris people. This is about preserving the integrity of this place that has been preserved for 5,000 years. - Shell to Sea campaigner Maura Harrington. Village, 2 November.

If the US decided to jettison just one day of war it could pay for an increase of $3.50 per hour in the wages of every minimum wage worker in the US. - Column McVann, Village, 2 November.

The things that we, as a society did, and tolerated others doing to children, are shocking. - Ombusman for Children Emily Logan, Irish Independent, 4 November supporting proposals to put childrens' rights clearly into the Constitution.

Tens of thousands of voters have been removed from the electoral register, prompting predictions of chaos on polling day next summer. - Shane Coleman and Odran Flynn on the removal of names from the 26 County electoral register where the individuals fail to contact their local authority requesting reinstatement on receipt of letters letting them know they have been removed from the draft register. Sunday Tribune, 5 November.

The British state is going to have to face up to its role in the systematic murder of over 1,100 nationalists and republicans, both directly and through their surrogates in the various unionists death squads. - Robert McClenaghan of victims group An Fhirinne, The Irish News, 7 November on findings of an international report on collusion in Ireland launched this week.

Migrants who come here are twice as likely to have degrees as the indigenous Irish, yet they frequently find themselves working in lower paid jobs. - Alison Healy The Irish Times, 7 November, covering the launch of Anti-Racist Workplace.

We are telling them 12 years have passed since the massacre and the police have kept us in the dark all that time. - Patrick MacCreanor, relative of Barney Green and Dan MacCreanor killed in the 1994 Loughinisland massacre on why the families are now taking the case to Europe. Irish News, 8 November.

This is a really significant and important report and the Irish Government need to use it and to examine it and to put pressure on the British Government to come clean over their role in the attacks. - Margaret Urwin of Justice for the Forgotten comments on the 7 November report by an international panel of human rights experts which has detailed significant collusion between state forces and Loyalists. Irish Examiner the 7 November.


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