6 June 1997 Edition
Dúirt siad...
The government of the United Kingdom must recognise that emergency laws such as those enforced in Northern Ireland often serve to sustain political violence by creating an environment in which human rights are routinely violated.
New York based Human Rights Watch report into the RUC, Irish Times, Thursday 29 May.
I would believe that it is a vote for peace, it's a vote for the direction that the majority of people on this island want to go in.
Dick Spring's comments when asked if a vote for Sinn Féin was a vote for peace, Irish Times, Saturday 31 May.
In this city where republicanism was founded almost 200 years ago it is gratifying that Sinn Féin now receives more votes than any other party.
Gerry Adams on Sinn Féin's recent electoral success in Belfast. Andersonstown News, Saturday 31 May.
An election campaign which has consisted of both sides touring the country trying to buy votes with contrasting spin-doctored versions of how to give the citizens back their own money in new tax regimes.
Tom McGurk in the Sunday Business Post, 1 June.
I think the SDLP should put the following notice in all national and local papers. To all SDLP members:
Would all those members who loaned their votes to Sinn Féin for the last couple of elections please return them to SDLP headquarters as soon as possible.
Letter in the Irish News , Tuesday 3 June.
[There is] admiration for the manner in which he has been to the forefront of a campaign to drive the drug pushers out. ``I don't threaten anyone, but I won't stand back from any person either.''
Sinn Féin's North Kerry candidate Martin Ferris on drug dealers, The Examiner, Tuesday 3 June.
We appear to have become accepting of a situation in which large segments of the population don't avail of the educational opportunities, which are their children's only hope for the future, don't vote, are condemned to a lifetime of hard financial circumstances and have to organise marches and evictions to get the state to take an interest in what the heroin epidemic is doing to their communities.
Pádraig O Morain, Irish Times, Wednesday 4 June.
I went down to Moore Street and told the people: Vote for me and I'll get yez a free snooker table, six foot by three, free balls and a bale of briquettes.
Election promises from Dustin the Turkey, RTE Radio, Wednesday 4 June.
New York based Human Rights Watch report into the RUC, Irish Times, Thursday 29 May.
I would believe that it is a vote for peace, it's a vote for the direction that the majority of people on this island want to go in.
Dick Spring's comments when asked if a vote for Sinn Féin was a vote for peace, Irish Times, Saturday 31 May.
In this city where republicanism was founded almost 200 years ago it is gratifying that Sinn Féin now receives more votes than any other party.
Gerry Adams on Sinn Féin's recent electoral success in Belfast. Andersonstown News, Saturday 31 May.
An election campaign which has consisted of both sides touring the country trying to buy votes with contrasting spin-doctored versions of how to give the citizens back their own money in new tax regimes.
Tom McGurk in the Sunday Business Post, 1 June.
I think the SDLP should put the following notice in all national and local papers. To all SDLP members:
Would all those members who loaned their votes to Sinn Féin for the last couple of elections please return them to SDLP headquarters as soon as possible.
Letter in the Irish News , Tuesday 3 June.
[There is] admiration for the manner in which he has been to the forefront of a campaign to drive the drug pushers out. ``I don't threaten anyone, but I won't stand back from any person either.''
Sinn Féin's North Kerry candidate Martin Ferris on drug dealers, The Examiner, Tuesday 3 June.
We appear to have become accepting of a situation in which large segments of the population don't avail of the educational opportunities, which are their children's only hope for the future, don't vote, are condemned to a lifetime of hard financial circumstances and have to organise marches and evictions to get the state to take an interest in what the heroin epidemic is doing to their communities.
Pádraig O Morain, Irish Times, Wednesday 4 June.
I went down to Moore Street and told the people: Vote for me and I'll get yez a free snooker table, six foot by three, free balls and a bale of briquettes.
Election promises from Dustin the Turkey, RTE Radio, Wednesday 4 June.