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24 April 1997 Edition

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The main issue is still one of nationality - what country do we belong to?

Unionist at South Antrim canvass, Newsline, Friday 18 April

 


To have a Labour leader who has whacked the unions, sworn the gospel of privatisation, is being adopted by the Sun and who is to be found swearing boy scout oaths in all the City institutions, must gladens whatever it is that courses through old battle axe's veins.

Tom McGurk on Margaret Thatcher's reaction to Tony Blair, the Sunday Business Post, 20 April.

 


Bertie is resigned to the fact this is a beauty contest. The 1990s is the era of the Teflon leader and he's playing his part and doing his best.

Fianna Fáil source, Sunday Business Post, 20 April.

 


The PUP's Hugh Smyth withdrew from the contest and his people will, sources say, be telling their supporters to vote for Hendron. In 1992 the UDA gave Hendron a helping hand. This time it's the UVF.

Ed Moloney, the Sunday Tribune, 20 April.

 


The reality is that Drumcree brought about the surface tensions which had been there for many a year, tensions of class and culture, of politics and theology. Time has moved on.

Editorial in the Church of Ireland Gazette talking about the tensions in the Church of Ireland regarding the Drumcree stand offs and the possibility of Drumcree 3.

 


The southern Church of Ireland community feels itself to be moving with new confidence, well integrated into a rapidly developing society. It wonders why the northern church has been unable to divest itself of what looks like uncomfortable and anachronistic sectarian baggage.

Church of Ireland Gazette editorial.

 


Why the IRA is good for your heart. (Walking to work gets the blood flowing.)

Headline in the Guardian's Health section, Tuesday 22 April.

 


So which do you prefer - the anarchic bunch of traitors led by the wimp, or the gang of lying opportunists led by the smarmy prat?

Janet Daly in the Daily Telegraph on the choice British voters have, Tuesday 22 April.

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