27 February 1997 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Rí Rá agus ruaille buaille.
Gerry Adams speaking on John Hume's attack on Sinn Féin, UTV News, Thursday 20 February
Well of course this is just like the British, it's the only thing you can bring up and we are the only country which does still bring it up. There was a crisis in Tiananmen Square after a month in which the civil authority was being defied, and they took action about it. Very well. We can criticise Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, but that isn't by any means the whole story. Why can't we also look at the rest of his achievements.
Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath replying to BBC Newsnight presenter's question about Deng Xiaoping's responsibility for the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
I also want the British government to call a ceasfire to the conflict they have been involved in with the nationalist community since the foundation of the northern statelet.
Gerry Adams, Irish Times, Friday 21 Febraury.
I would like to tell the senator I am British and I intend to stay British and I intend to work as hard as I possibly can to keep Northern Ireland British.
Sam McAughtry replying to Fianna Fáil Senator Michael Mulcahy in the 26-County Senate, Irish Times, Friday 21 February.
Justice in this country stinks.
Jim Robinson, released after wrongfully spending almost 19 years in an English jail for the Bridgewater murder, Newsnight, Friday 21 February.
This is a case where there is seen to be no justice and where there is no justice there is no acceptance of law.
Eamon O Cúiv speaking on Roisín McAliskey's bail application, RTÉ radio, Saturday 22 February.
The Germans are lying or the British are.
Eamon O Cuiv TD, on the Roisín McAliskey bail application, Sunday Tribune, 23 February.
No officer was directly involved in more than one of the incidents...No conspiracy to kill, or pervert the course of justice, would or could have been contrived or, if contrived, have been concealed by so many for so long.
From former RUC Chief Constable Jack Hermon commenting in his autobiography on the shoot-to-kill operations of the early 1980s.
There was, however no reciprocal right for Catholics; the equivalent Catholic organisations, namely, the Irish National Foresters and the Ancient Order of Hibernians- could not march other than in their own `non-unionist' areas.
Hermon, writing again on Orange marches in 1985.
Orangemen have nothing left to give on the issue; all they have left is one church parade, compromise has been made.
David Trimble on the Drumcree march.
Gerry Adams speaking on John Hume's attack on Sinn Féin, UTV News, Thursday 20 February
Well of course this is just like the British, it's the only thing you can bring up and we are the only country which does still bring it up. There was a crisis in Tiananmen Square after a month in which the civil authority was being defied, and they took action about it. Very well. We can criticise Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland, but that isn't by any means the whole story. Why can't we also look at the rest of his achievements.
Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath replying to BBC Newsnight presenter's question about Deng Xiaoping's responsibility for the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
I also want the British government to call a ceasfire to the conflict they have been involved in with the nationalist community since the foundation of the northern statelet.
Gerry Adams, Irish Times, Friday 21 Febraury.
I would like to tell the senator I am British and I intend to stay British and I intend to work as hard as I possibly can to keep Northern Ireland British.
Sam McAughtry replying to Fianna Fáil Senator Michael Mulcahy in the 26-County Senate, Irish Times, Friday 21 February.
Justice in this country stinks.
Jim Robinson, released after wrongfully spending almost 19 years in an English jail for the Bridgewater murder, Newsnight, Friday 21 February.
This is a case where there is seen to be no justice and where there is no justice there is no acceptance of law.
Eamon O Cúiv speaking on Roisín McAliskey's bail application, RTÉ radio, Saturday 22 February.
The Germans are lying or the British are.
Eamon O Cuiv TD, on the Roisín McAliskey bail application, Sunday Tribune, 23 February.
No officer was directly involved in more than one of the incidents...No conspiracy to kill, or pervert the course of justice, would or could have been contrived or, if contrived, have been concealed by so many for so long.
From former RUC Chief Constable Jack Hermon commenting in his autobiography on the shoot-to-kill operations of the early 1980s.
There was, however no reciprocal right for Catholics; the equivalent Catholic organisations, namely, the Irish National Foresters and the Ancient Order of Hibernians- could not march other than in their own `non-unionist' areas.
Hermon, writing again on Orange marches in 1985.
Orangemen have nothing left to give on the issue; all they have left is one church parade, compromise has been made.
David Trimble on the Drumcree march.