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The LVF will remain in place until Dublin removes itself from Stormont and the Irish government drops Articles Two and Three of their constitution... [The 26-County government] wil pay a heavy price for interference in the internal affairs of Northern Ireland.

LVF statement received by the Belfast Telegargh stating their refusal to call a ceasefire.

 


The killing, the battering, the matter of his disposal, those were not the acts of sane individuals.

Priest at the funeral of County Down youth James Morgan, victim of a vicious sectarian attack, Irish Times Thursday 31 July.

 


The saddest aspect of the whole episode has been watching ordinary people venomously denounce the Travellers. That's how it started in Germany.

Philip Nolan commenting on the Traveller-resident stand-off in County Dublin, Evening Herald, Thursday 31 July.

 


The simple answer to the question put by the McCole family is that their state saw Bridget Ellen McCole as an enemy. Obvious as that answer now is, its implications remain almost unthinkable.

Fintan O'Toole in the Irish Times, Saturday 2 August.

 


The fact that unemployment is falling so little in the middle of a boom should be of as much concern as the increases we saw during the recession.

INOU national chairman Paul Billings quoted in the Irish Times, Saturday 2 August.

 


As Minister for Social Welfare, he paraded himself as some sort of socialist Santa Claus, a saintly bearded philanthropist gaining personal political credit for dispensing other people's money. He is not unique: politicians, as a class, frequently claim the kudos for benefits bestowed on others via public funds.

Sam Smyth on Proinsias De Rossa, Sunday Tribune, 3 August.

 


I will hang, burn, waste, boil, fry, strangle and bury alive these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs of their women and crush their infants' heads against the walls.

Writer in a Portadown `newspaper' on an oath apparently taken by Jesuits to exterminate Protestants. Sunday Tribune 3 August.

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