26 June 1997 Edition
Dúirt siad...
He got a kicking from the peelers, a kicking from the Brits and then they tried to recruit him as an informer. What has gone on up there is mass punishment.
Breandán Mac Cionnaith on his nephew's treatment by the crown forces in the aftermath of the killing of the two RUC men in Lurgan.
Loyalist paramilitaries under the Combined Loyalist Military Command umbrella... It has all the hallmarks of a measured response to the killings of the policemen.
PUP's Billy Hutchinson in response to the loyalist car-bomb attack on a former INLA prisoner and his companion, Sunday Tribune, 22 June.
When Blair mentioned, threateningly, the danger of the peace train leaving without Sinn Féin on board, their response was simply to wonder had he the wherewithal to guard the tracks.
Tom McGurk on the attitudes of republicans to the peace process.
The Sinn Féin leadership is not giving up on our peace strategy. We will not be deflected. We will not shirk our responsibilities.
Martin McGuinness speaking at the annual Wolfe Tone.commemoration at Bodenstown.
Rather than eyeballing us, governments and political leaders should be applying themselves to making change and creating justice.
Martin McGuinness at the annual Wolfe Tone commemoration in Bodenstown.
No one, but no one, dares venture into Portadown town centre after the hours of darkness - especially on a Saturday night. This is the reality of life for Catholics on the Garvaghy Road.
Michael O'Toole in the Irish News, Monday 23 June.
For the past 41 weeks the congregation at Our Lady's Church has experienced verbal and physical harassment on its way to and from Saturday evening Mass. Now that congregation has voluntarily decided to forgo its right to celebrate Mass in the interests of the common good.
Statement of SDLP representatives Seán Farren, PJ McAvoy and Declan O'Loan on the decision to suspend Saturday evening Mass at Harryville. Irish News, Monday 23 June.
It was a pretty amoral way to grab hold of some territory, but there you are.
Capt Clayton, last commander of a British warship to leave Hong Kong, on his country's inglorious capture of the 80 sq km territory through the Opium Wars. Irish Times, Tuesday 24 June.
Breandán Mac Cionnaith on his nephew's treatment by the crown forces in the aftermath of the killing of the two RUC men in Lurgan.
Loyalist paramilitaries under the Combined Loyalist Military Command umbrella... It has all the hallmarks of a measured response to the killings of the policemen.
PUP's Billy Hutchinson in response to the loyalist car-bomb attack on a former INLA prisoner and his companion, Sunday Tribune, 22 June.
When Blair mentioned, threateningly, the danger of the peace train leaving without Sinn Féin on board, their response was simply to wonder had he the wherewithal to guard the tracks.
Tom McGurk on the attitudes of republicans to the peace process.
The Sinn Féin leadership is not giving up on our peace strategy. We will not be deflected. We will not shirk our responsibilities.
Martin McGuinness speaking at the annual Wolfe Tone.commemoration at Bodenstown.
Rather than eyeballing us, governments and political leaders should be applying themselves to making change and creating justice.
Martin McGuinness at the annual Wolfe Tone commemoration in Bodenstown.
No one, but no one, dares venture into Portadown town centre after the hours of darkness - especially on a Saturday night. This is the reality of life for Catholics on the Garvaghy Road.
Michael O'Toole in the Irish News, Monday 23 June.
For the past 41 weeks the congregation at Our Lady's Church has experienced verbal and physical harassment on its way to and from Saturday evening Mass. Now that congregation has voluntarily decided to forgo its right to celebrate Mass in the interests of the common good.
Statement of SDLP representatives Seán Farren, PJ McAvoy and Declan O'Loan on the decision to suspend Saturday evening Mass at Harryville. Irish News, Monday 23 June.
It was a pretty amoral way to grab hold of some territory, but there you are.
Capt Clayton, last commander of a British warship to leave Hong Kong, on his country's inglorious capture of the 80 sq km territory through the Opium Wars. Irish Times, Tuesday 24 June.