4 December 1997 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Smoked Salmon socialists.
Fianna Fáil TDs to Labour leader Ruairí Quinn in Leinster House last week.
The day I was sentenced I began to question things. What was all this for? Why is this happening? I'm fighting to remain British and everything that's abusing me at this point in time - the police, the security forces, the prison staff, the judicial system - all were wearing the British crown... I suppose really it was the beginning of the recognition that injustices were taking place and I was part of it. After that I could begin to see how the nationalist community felt about those injustices.
Interview with ex-loyalist prisoner Eddie Kinner in this week's RTÉ Guide.
But what is at issue here is the acknowledgement and correction of a deep injustice experienced by those still living.
Bertie Ahern showing his growing impatience with the British government on the issue of Bloody Sunday. Thursday 27 November.
Every pressure needs to be exerted on Labour to honour that commitment now that it is in government.
MEP Patricia McKenna on the 1987 commitments of the British Labour government to withdraw plastic bullets from the Six Counties. Friday 28 November.
Let us tell those who want to drag us into the past that they are grossly mistaken because all sections of the nation are working to build our country and to make it a miracle. That is what gives me hope as I go to bed. I have not the slightest doubt that when I go into eternity I will have a smile on my face.
South Afican President Nelson Mandela saying he would die a happy man because his dream of a racially united South Africa will have been achieved. Thursday 27 November.
The unionists are not coming to the table because of any ``Lemassian'' conversion on the part of Fianna Fáil (who could have been more Lemassian towards the Six Counties than Albert Reynolds?), but because Dublin, London and Washington are holding political blowtorches to David Trimble's backside.
Tim Pat Coogan in Ireland On Sunday, 30 November.
It is an outrage, an attack on freedom of expression.
Defence lawyer after the convicting of the National Executive of Herri Batasuna with ``aiding an armed group'' by a Spanish court. Each defendent received a seven-year sentence. Monday 1 December.
Fianna Fáil TDs to Labour leader Ruairí Quinn in Leinster House last week.
The day I was sentenced I began to question things. What was all this for? Why is this happening? I'm fighting to remain British and everything that's abusing me at this point in time - the police, the security forces, the prison staff, the judicial system - all were wearing the British crown... I suppose really it was the beginning of the recognition that injustices were taking place and I was part of it. After that I could begin to see how the nationalist community felt about those injustices.
Interview with ex-loyalist prisoner Eddie Kinner in this week's RTÉ Guide.
But what is at issue here is the acknowledgement and correction of a deep injustice experienced by those still living.
Bertie Ahern showing his growing impatience with the British government on the issue of Bloody Sunday. Thursday 27 November.
Every pressure needs to be exerted on Labour to honour that commitment now that it is in government.
MEP Patricia McKenna on the 1987 commitments of the British Labour government to withdraw plastic bullets from the Six Counties. Friday 28 November.
Let us tell those who want to drag us into the past that they are grossly mistaken because all sections of the nation are working to build our country and to make it a miracle. That is what gives me hope as I go to bed. I have not the slightest doubt that when I go into eternity I will have a smile on my face.
South Afican President Nelson Mandela saying he would die a happy man because his dream of a racially united South Africa will have been achieved. Thursday 27 November.
The unionists are not coming to the table because of any ``Lemassian'' conversion on the part of Fianna Fáil (who could have been more Lemassian towards the Six Counties than Albert Reynolds?), but because Dublin, London and Washington are holding political blowtorches to David Trimble's backside.
Tim Pat Coogan in Ireland On Sunday, 30 November.
It is an outrage, an attack on freedom of expression.
Defence lawyer after the convicting of the National Executive of Herri Batasuna with ``aiding an armed group'' by a Spanish court. Each defendent received a seven-year sentence. Monday 1 December.