2 July 1998 Edition
Dúirt siad...
I have to accept that David Trimble has a place on this island, it should be an honourable and an honoured place, and he has to accept that I have to be treated on the basis of equality. That's the only way to go forward. Putting up obstacles or excuses for not talking, for not engaging, is part of the old agenda.
Gerry Adams after the election results.
Dublin is sick, Tony Blair is sick, but the sickest of them all is David Trimble. The people of Northern Ireland have today written the obituary of Trimbleism.
Ian Paisley.
Well, I suppose Mr Paisley is entitled to a little rhetoric at this stage. He has very little else.
SDLP deputy leader Séamus Mallon.
In fact, sectarianism, and a class factor which did down Gary McMichael, are still the most noticeable characteristics of unionist politics. No Hume, no Adams arises. No sense of giving the leadership which, for example, the Six-County business community obviously is desperately seeking, has been thrown up by this election. Instead we have both the ``Soft Unionists'' (one wonders does this mean they are in need of political Viagra treatment) and the hard men of the DUP promising to ``keep Tony Blair to his pledges''. Decoded this means we will intend to wreck the assembly by all means at our disposable using the issues of decommissioning and prison releases.
Tim Pat Coogan. Ireland On Sunday, 28 June.
It cleared up for the Orangemen, who finally got to parade past the Catholic houses in a march notable not for its festive joy, but for the frenzied, triumphalist, head-wrecking aggressiveness of the drummers (playing with such ferocity that one shattered his drum); the children being whipped up to roar out the Sash at the ``appropriate moment''; the sinister UVF colour party (which a police commander claimed not to have seen); the RUC dog handler winking at an Orangeman; and the few whooping harridans taunting residents with their Union Jacks.
Kathy Sheridan writing in Monday's Irish Times on the Orange march in Whiterock last Saturday.
There can be no justification for allowing this march into a nationalist area. The decision by the Parades Commission to open a section of the so-called peace line to allow an Orange march to walk through a nationalist area was an outrageous decision, which clearly flouts the criteria aet out for such contentious marches to be re-routed.
Sinn Féin's Bairdre de Brun on the RUC's action to allow the Orange parade through a nationalist area.
This type of hostile and provocative behaviour is in complete contradiction to the search for a lasting peace and a direct contravention of the Mitchell Principles on non-violence.
Sinn Féin's Dara O'Hagan on the crown forces incursion into the Kilwilkee Estate in Lurgan last Monday.
It is a matter of regret that the Orangemen have spurned all our invitations to meet.
Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition spokesperson on the re-routing decision.
Gerry Adams after the election results.
Dublin is sick, Tony Blair is sick, but the sickest of them all is David Trimble. The people of Northern Ireland have today written the obituary of Trimbleism.
Ian Paisley.
Well, I suppose Mr Paisley is entitled to a little rhetoric at this stage. He has very little else.
SDLP deputy leader Séamus Mallon.
In fact, sectarianism, and a class factor which did down Gary McMichael, are still the most noticeable characteristics of unionist politics. No Hume, no Adams arises. No sense of giving the leadership which, for example, the Six-County business community obviously is desperately seeking, has been thrown up by this election. Instead we have both the ``Soft Unionists'' (one wonders does this mean they are in need of political Viagra treatment) and the hard men of the DUP promising to ``keep Tony Blair to his pledges''. Decoded this means we will intend to wreck the assembly by all means at our disposable using the issues of decommissioning and prison releases.
Tim Pat Coogan. Ireland On Sunday, 28 June.
It cleared up for the Orangemen, who finally got to parade past the Catholic houses in a march notable not for its festive joy, but for the frenzied, triumphalist, head-wrecking aggressiveness of the drummers (playing with such ferocity that one shattered his drum); the children being whipped up to roar out the Sash at the ``appropriate moment''; the sinister UVF colour party (which a police commander claimed not to have seen); the RUC dog handler winking at an Orangeman; and the few whooping harridans taunting residents with their Union Jacks.
Kathy Sheridan writing in Monday's Irish Times on the Orange march in Whiterock last Saturday.
There can be no justification for allowing this march into a nationalist area. The decision by the Parades Commission to open a section of the so-called peace line to allow an Orange march to walk through a nationalist area was an outrageous decision, which clearly flouts the criteria aet out for such contentious marches to be re-routed.
Sinn Féin's Bairdre de Brun on the RUC's action to allow the Orange parade through a nationalist area.
This type of hostile and provocative behaviour is in complete contradiction to the search for a lasting peace and a direct contravention of the Mitchell Principles on non-violence.
Sinn Féin's Dara O'Hagan on the crown forces incursion into the Kilwilkee Estate in Lurgan last Monday.
It is a matter of regret that the Orangemen have spurned all our invitations to meet.
Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition spokesperson on the re-routing decision.