23 November 2006 Edition

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Dúirt Siad...

The 57-year-old, of Parker Avenue, Portrush, took the votes of elderly nursing home residents and made them out in favour of himself and former party colleague Gregory Campbell in last year's local and general elections. — The Irish News, 18 November on former DUP mayor Dessie Stewart's conviction on charges of electoral fraud.

Ian Paisley's mischief-making about rubbing the police and the law and order issue in the faces of Sinn Féin is evidence of no more than his classic corner-boy mentality. He presumes that law and order are somehow the same as they used to be back in the good old days. One suspects that on this -- as in most other things in the changing North -- he is wrong again. The peace process has changed so much, because it had to visibly support a new civic society, where equality rules. — Tom McGurk, The Sunday Business Post, 19 November.

"People were dying of basic needs like dehydration. The HSE was inspecting the home and telling families it was an OK place for people to send relatives." — Tony Mullins of the Leas Cross Deaths Relatives Action Group. Irish Independent, 21 November.

Of course when unionists don't like policing or the way law and order is administered they riot, shoot at the police or try to bring the North to a standstill, as one UUP spokesman threatened a few years ago over Drumcree. That's okay, you see, because unionists still believe they own the North. — Brian Feeney, The Irish News, 22 November.

What virtually no-one points out is that no-one in the DUP has expressed support for power sharing and no-one says when they're going to do so. — Brian Feeney, The Irish News, 22 November.

"He is blinded by ideology and should stop behaving like a fascist." — PD leader and Tánaiste Michael McDowell speaking in the Dáil on 16 November about Green Party TD John Gormley's Dáil questioning of tax breaks for private nursing homes. McDowell was.


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