14 October 1999 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Evidence emerged that substantial cheques made out to Fianna Fáil and sent to party headquarters in Upper Mount Street, Dublin, ended up in the party leader's account, which Mr Charles Haughey ran from his office... It also emerged that Mr Haughey was able to make withdrawals from his account for reasons that had nothing to do with politics.
Colm Keena, writing in the Irish Times on the revelations from the Moriarty Tribunal that Charles Haugheys paid £15,800 out of party funds to pay an expensive Paris shirt bill
I think the Prime Minister is going to feel very embarrassed if this collapses, all the terrorist prisoners are free and there will be a big bang in the centre of London.
UUP MP John Taylor, blaming everybody else but himself for the present impasse in the peace process
This is a government that grovels to collaborate with Spain, whose bullying of Gibraltar is a daily outrage - yet treats our Chilean allies with contempt. This is a government which reckons that aging spies, who betrayed our country to Soviet communism, should escape prosecution - yet obsessively pursues the frail 83-year-old Pinochet, who stopped the communists taking Chile.
Former Tory leader Margaret Thatcher in fine form defending Chile's most famous mass murderer at the Conservative Party conference last week
It is simply wrong in a democracy to ask politicians like David Trimble to sit in government with fully armed terrorist organisations.
Tory leader William Hague on the concluding day of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool
In the light of the Ansbacher scandal and the revelations emanating from Tribunal investigations, it is hardly surprising that delegates attending the SIPTU conference in Killarney should vote unanimously in favour of yet another national protest. It will win popular support from a public sickened by the hypocrisy of disgraced former Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
Editorial in the Examiner, Friday 8 October
We want to press forward in our dealings with Mr Trimble and Mr Mitchell next week and break the impasse and put up the institutions that should have been put up a year ago... It looks quite bleak. I will be quite honest about that, but we should not give up hope.
Martin McGuinness on the future of the peace process after a meeting with John Bruton last week
If we've money to spend on new toys for the army, we'd be better off investing it in the nurses' conditions. And certainly we should not embark on such a radical departure from the policy of this state since its foundation without consulting the people. If war is too important to be left to generals, then peace is too important to be left to politicians.
Tim Pat Coogan in Ireland On Sunday on the Fianna Fáil-led government's intention to join PfP
As a public schoolboy before the last war, I was regularly taught to honour the British Empire, vote Conservative and be grateful for my privileged education. As a result, I became a one-boy communist cell at Harrow.
Author John Mortimer
Colm Keena, writing in the Irish Times on the revelations from the Moriarty Tribunal that Charles Haugheys paid £15,800 out of party funds to pay an expensive Paris shirt bill
I think the Prime Minister is going to feel very embarrassed if this collapses, all the terrorist prisoners are free and there will be a big bang in the centre of London.
UUP MP John Taylor, blaming everybody else but himself for the present impasse in the peace process
This is a government that grovels to collaborate with Spain, whose bullying of Gibraltar is a daily outrage - yet treats our Chilean allies with contempt. This is a government which reckons that aging spies, who betrayed our country to Soviet communism, should escape prosecution - yet obsessively pursues the frail 83-year-old Pinochet, who stopped the communists taking Chile.
Former Tory leader Margaret Thatcher in fine form defending Chile's most famous mass murderer at the Conservative Party conference last week
It is simply wrong in a democracy to ask politicians like David Trimble to sit in government with fully armed terrorist organisations.
Tory leader William Hague on the concluding day of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool
In the light of the Ansbacher scandal and the revelations emanating from Tribunal investigations, it is hardly surprising that delegates attending the SIPTU conference in Killarney should vote unanimously in favour of yet another national protest. It will win popular support from a public sickened by the hypocrisy of disgraced former Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
Editorial in the Examiner, Friday 8 October
We want to press forward in our dealings with Mr Trimble and Mr Mitchell next week and break the impasse and put up the institutions that should have been put up a year ago... It looks quite bleak. I will be quite honest about that, but we should not give up hope.
Martin McGuinness on the future of the peace process after a meeting with John Bruton last week
If we've money to spend on new toys for the army, we'd be better off investing it in the nurses' conditions. And certainly we should not embark on such a radical departure from the policy of this state since its foundation without consulting the people. If war is too important to be left to generals, then peace is too important to be left to politicians.
Tim Pat Coogan in Ireland On Sunday on the Fianna Fáil-led government's intention to join PfP
As a public schoolboy before the last war, I was regularly taught to honour the British Empire, vote Conservative and be grateful for my privileged education. As a result, I became a one-boy communist cell at Harrow.
Author John Mortimer