14 June 2001 Edition
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Loyalty to John Hume allowed him to dominate the election campaign but he was no match against the unionists or the softly-spoken Gerry Adams, inserting the knife so expertly that it was almost undetectable.
- Barry White of the Sunday Independent
One senior party figure said the SDLP had been through worse, pointing to elections following the 1981 hunger strike. But even that thought could not hide the painful disappointment evident on their faces.
- Séamus McKinney, in the Irish News
As we basked in the sight of a Fianna Fail leader tutting about undisclosed donations, Anthony Coughlan rather scuttled the Taoiseach with the admission that the money had actually come from his pension. Oh dear.
- John Drennan of the Sunday Independent, commenting on Bertie Ahern's mistaken allegations that `No to Nice' campaigners had benefitted handsomely from right-wing US donors
...Sinn Féin edged so effortlessly ahead of an ailing, ageing SDLP as to make one almost pity the elder party's bewildered ineptitude in the face of it; and anyone who thinks that surge can be contained north of the border and have no consequences on the next Dáil is in serious denial.
- Eilis O'Hanlon, another Sunday Independent journalist coming out of denial
Do you know who's beginning to sound most in touch with what this vote is all about? Sinn Féin, that's who, the fastest growing party in this island (and no, I'm not a member).
- Diarmuid O'Flynn, The Examiner, in an article questioning the Dublin government's attitude towards the 26-County electorate
``There's got to be a very hard look at the party from top to bottom and one thing's for sure: the incubus that ruined us was post-nationalism. It's nonsense''.
- Patrick McDonnell of the SDLP, explaining his party's demise in Tuesday's Irish Independent
- Barry White of the Sunday Independent
One senior party figure said the SDLP had been through worse, pointing to elections following the 1981 hunger strike. But even that thought could not hide the painful disappointment evident on their faces.
- Séamus McKinney, in the Irish News
As we basked in the sight of a Fianna Fail leader tutting about undisclosed donations, Anthony Coughlan rather scuttled the Taoiseach with the admission that the money had actually come from his pension. Oh dear.
- John Drennan of the Sunday Independent, commenting on Bertie Ahern's mistaken allegations that `No to Nice' campaigners had benefitted handsomely from right-wing US donors
...Sinn Féin edged so effortlessly ahead of an ailing, ageing SDLP as to make one almost pity the elder party's bewildered ineptitude in the face of it; and anyone who thinks that surge can be contained north of the border and have no consequences on the next Dáil is in serious denial.
- Eilis O'Hanlon, another Sunday Independent journalist coming out of denial
Do you know who's beginning to sound most in touch with what this vote is all about? Sinn Féin, that's who, the fastest growing party in this island (and no, I'm not a member).
- Diarmuid O'Flynn, The Examiner, in an article questioning the Dublin government's attitude towards the 26-County electorate
``There's got to be a very hard look at the party from top to bottom and one thing's for sure: the incubus that ruined us was post-nationalism. It's nonsense''.
- Patrick McDonnell of the SDLP, explaining his party's demise in Tuesday's Irish Independent