28 August 1997 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Are you one of these boring activists as well? Because if you are I'm not talking to you.
Boyzone manager Louis Walsh on being contacted by the Irish Times about the band's tour of Indonesia.
The function of the RUC was instilled in its members from its foundation in 1921. It was to protect British interests and the unionist ethos to the exclusion of all others. They have been a unionist force policing a unionist state for unionists.
Dodie McGuinness at the press conference in Belfast on 21 August calling for the disbandment of the RUC.
Will it change anything of the Catholic Churches attitude? On their track record to date, it'll change nothing.
Solicitor for paedophile priest Brendan Smyth's victims after hearing of his death. Irish Times, Saturday 23 August.
There is a tremendous enthusiasm for Sinn Féin; their turnout is very high. I know the SDLP would complain there is an element of cheating, but I have been used to those allegations from many sources and I find them greatly exaggerated.
UUP MP John Taylor in an interview with Frank Connolly in the Sunday Business Post, 24 August.
Of course there must be equal opportunity for everyone, but not equality. You cannot expect the Irish minority in NI to be equal to the majority.
John Taylor again on nationalist equality in the Orange state.
Ireland's era of government by stroke, the culture of politics which admingled power, money, connections, inside information and favours has its nemesis today. Or so it would be comforting to believe.
Irish Times editorial on the publication of the McCracken tribunal report, Monday 25 August.
This is a bleak report. It finds that a former Taoiseach, and a close confidant of another Taoiseach, behaved in a manner that at least opened the possibilty of bribery and corruption and at worst may have been criminal.
Editorial in the Irish Independent on the McCracken report, Tuesday 26 August.
Boyzone manager Louis Walsh on being contacted by the Irish Times about the band's tour of Indonesia.
The function of the RUC was instilled in its members from its foundation in 1921. It was to protect British interests and the unionist ethos to the exclusion of all others. They have been a unionist force policing a unionist state for unionists.
Dodie McGuinness at the press conference in Belfast on 21 August calling for the disbandment of the RUC.
Will it change anything of the Catholic Churches attitude? On their track record to date, it'll change nothing.
Solicitor for paedophile priest Brendan Smyth's victims after hearing of his death. Irish Times, Saturday 23 August.
There is a tremendous enthusiasm for Sinn Féin; their turnout is very high. I know the SDLP would complain there is an element of cheating, but I have been used to those allegations from many sources and I find them greatly exaggerated.
UUP MP John Taylor in an interview with Frank Connolly in the Sunday Business Post, 24 August.
Of course there must be equal opportunity for everyone, but not equality. You cannot expect the Irish minority in NI to be equal to the majority.
John Taylor again on nationalist equality in the Orange state.
Ireland's era of government by stroke, the culture of politics which admingled power, money, connections, inside information and favours has its nemesis today. Or so it would be comforting to believe.
Irish Times editorial on the publication of the McCracken tribunal report, Monday 25 August.
This is a bleak report. It finds that a former Taoiseach, and a close confidant of another Taoiseach, behaved in a manner that at least opened the possibilty of bribery and corruption and at worst may have been criminal.
Editorial in the Irish Independent on the McCracken report, Tuesday 26 August.