23 April 1998 Edition
Dúirt siad...
There is no question of disbanding the RUC.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Thursday 16 April.
I am gloriously, magnificently, totally wrong.
Kevin Myers acknowledging that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness are sincere. Irish Times, Thursday 16 April.
It's not paranoia when they are really against you - I tell you that as a psychiatrist.
Alliance leader John Alderdice on whether unionists were paranoid of Sinn Féin. Question Time, BBC 1, Thursday 16 April.
Do you realise you are sitting between two gunrunners?
Martin Ferris to Gerry Adams, pointing out his position between himself and Joe Cahill at the Ard Fheis.
All political prisoners must be released. We will not rest until they are at home with their loved ones.
Gerry Adams speaking at the Ard Fheis.
The release of prisoners is essential. There will be no settlement while there are republicans in prison.
Martin Ferris.
John Alderdice thoroughly lived up to his nickname John Balderdash. He looks like Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean but he is far from funny. It's appropriate that a psychiatrist should lead a unionist party but that was about the only appropriate aspect of his talks behaviour.
Tim Pat Coogan, Ireland On Sunday. 19 April.
They have swallowed and imbibed [the IRA] and are totally controlled by the pernicious, devilish principle of Jesuitry, that is the end justifies the means.
Ian Paisley, Ireland On Sunday. 19 April.
There are many difficult situations out there, with the LVF, the Securocrats. The RUC are still harassing people on the streets and the Britsh Army are still there.
Martin McGuinness in a post-Agreement interviw with Ireland On Sunday. 19 April.
It is you who will make the decision on this agreement - and determine when that decision will be taken.
Mitchell McLaughlin to the Ard Fheis, 18 April.
The Iraqis are people just like you and me and they have children just like us. When we cut them they bleed. We have been cutting them with sanctions for almost eight years now and they are bleeding profusely.
British Labour MP George Galloway responding to attack on him last week because of his call for the lifting of the sanctions on Iraq.
It sticks in my throat to say it, but a few hundred determined terrorists have brought a government which spends more than £22 billion a year on defence to the conference table pleading for peace. What a contrast with the Falklands.
Tory peer Lord Tebbit speaking only a week after calling Bertie Ahern a ``puffed up non-entity'' before saying that, after loyalist bombs in Dublin, ``Mr Ahern will have no one but himself and gutless British governments to blame''.
For Paisley, bigotry remains an addiction. He remains a formidable obstacle to co-existence. A buffoon, yes, and at 72 maybe an old one, but a dangerous, poisonous and menacing buffoon.
London Independent Editorial last week.
We sought maximum change in British constitutional legislation and a strengthening of the Irish constitutional imperative to unity. The proposed incorporation of consent into Article 3 presents major a difficulty. Consent here, once again, is unarguably the unionist veto in disguise.
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caoláin speaking in Leinster House this week.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Thursday 16 April.
I am gloriously, magnificently, totally wrong.
Kevin Myers acknowledging that Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness are sincere. Irish Times, Thursday 16 April.
It's not paranoia when they are really against you - I tell you that as a psychiatrist.
Alliance leader John Alderdice on whether unionists were paranoid of Sinn Féin. Question Time, BBC 1, Thursday 16 April.
Do you realise you are sitting between two gunrunners?
Martin Ferris to Gerry Adams, pointing out his position between himself and Joe Cahill at the Ard Fheis.
All political prisoners must be released. We will not rest until they are at home with their loved ones.
Gerry Adams speaking at the Ard Fheis.
The release of prisoners is essential. There will be no settlement while there are republicans in prison.
Martin Ferris.
John Alderdice thoroughly lived up to his nickname John Balderdash. He looks like Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean but he is far from funny. It's appropriate that a psychiatrist should lead a unionist party but that was about the only appropriate aspect of his talks behaviour.
Tim Pat Coogan, Ireland On Sunday. 19 April.
They have swallowed and imbibed [the IRA] and are totally controlled by the pernicious, devilish principle of Jesuitry, that is the end justifies the means.
Ian Paisley, Ireland On Sunday. 19 April.
There are many difficult situations out there, with the LVF, the Securocrats. The RUC are still harassing people on the streets and the Britsh Army are still there.
Martin McGuinness in a post-Agreement interviw with Ireland On Sunday. 19 April.
It is you who will make the decision on this agreement - and determine when that decision will be taken.
Mitchell McLaughlin to the Ard Fheis, 18 April.
The Iraqis are people just like you and me and they have children just like us. When we cut them they bleed. We have been cutting them with sanctions for almost eight years now and they are bleeding profusely.
British Labour MP George Galloway responding to attack on him last week because of his call for the lifting of the sanctions on Iraq.
It sticks in my throat to say it, but a few hundred determined terrorists have brought a government which spends more than £22 billion a year on defence to the conference table pleading for peace. What a contrast with the Falklands.
Tory peer Lord Tebbit speaking only a week after calling Bertie Ahern a ``puffed up non-entity'' before saying that, after loyalist bombs in Dublin, ``Mr Ahern will have no one but himself and gutless British governments to blame''.
For Paisley, bigotry remains an addiction. He remains a formidable obstacle to co-existence. A buffoon, yes, and at 72 maybe an old one, but a dangerous, poisonous and menacing buffoon.
London Independent Editorial last week.
We sought maximum change in British constitutional legislation and a strengthening of the Irish constitutional imperative to unity. The proposed incorporation of consent into Article 3 presents major a difficulty. Consent here, once again, is unarguably the unionist veto in disguise.
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caoláin speaking in Leinster House this week.