Dúirt Siad...

"Waterways Ireland is now being run by the Knights of Columbanus."

The increasingly bizarre Lord Laird, hero of the Sunday Independent and Michael McDowell fellow-traveller, Belfast Telegraph 11 May.

No longer can civic leaders in Ballymena turn a blind eye. No more can civic society in the town ignore this problem.

Sinn Féin chief negotiator Martin McGuinness on the murder of Michael McIlveen in Ballymena, Irish Examiner 11 May.

One man's collusion is another man's anti-terrorist activity. Ulster Unionist Ken Maginnis lets the mask slip, Irish News 13 May.

Too many Irish politicians are tipping their cap to the US. Independent TD Finian McGrath, Sunday Tribune 14 May

If we have crossed the Rubicon and gone where we shouldn't have then I am very sorry.

Garda Representative Association general secretary P J Stone backs off from their illegal threat to involve themselves in party politics, Sunday Independent 14 May.

It cannot stay out there in the ether that maybe another friendly state bombed our citizens on the streets of our capital city and in the town of Monaghan.

Justice for the Forgotten spokesperson Margaret Urwin calls for a full public inquiry into the Dublin Monaghan bombings as the 32nd anniversary approaches, Daily Ireland 15 May.

The Ulster Unionists walked out of the Assembly three years ago over what the IRA was doing. But the Provos weren`t killing protestants, the UVF have been.

Raymond McCord whose son was murdered by the UVF on the Ulster Unionst pact with David Irvine of the PUP, UTV internet 15 May.

Richard O'Rawe was everywhere, cheered on by the very people who attempted to criminalise the republican struggle.

Danny Morrison on the emergence of Richard O'Rawe as a revisionist hero, Daily Ireland 11 May