30 October 1997 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Funny how you can go off a person... What is it about that accent that is so grating, so irritating, so whining and yet dictatorial.
Anti-northern comments by Liz Ryan writing about Mary McAleese in the Evening Herald. Thursday 23 October.
South Africa supports the present talks involving all stakeholders to resolve the conflict in Ireland. We trust that these talks, given the commitment already demonstrated by all leaders, will soon bring about peace and tranquillity in your beautiful island.
South Africa President Nelson Mandela in a message to the Irish people. Thursday 23 October.
The Tories should bury their heads in shame.
Gerry Adams on the BBC's Question Time in reply to the Tories squandering of the first ceasefire.
Members of the Maryfield secretariat are being given 48 hours from midnight tonight to resign or become legitimate targets.
Statement from the LVF threatening violence on members of the 26-County civil service if they did not leave the Six Counties.
The appallingly insensitive way refugees and asylum seekers are treated by the system we have created to `help' them in this country is a growing disgrace.
Editorial on treatment of refugees by the system. Evening Herald, Saturday 25 October.
An isolated opinionist, without any detectable political back-up.
The Sunday Tribune's Tallyman writing about Eoghan Harris. 26 October.
[John Bruton] has transformed the presidential election in the Republic of Ireland into a referendum on the Six Counties, on the unsavoury premise that we should not vote for Mary McAleese - and should insult the nationalist community there.
Tim Pat Coogan in Ireland on Sunday. 26 October.
It was said of the Bourbons that they had learnt nothing and forgotten nothing and that was their downfall. The Ulster Unionists of the Stormont era learnt nothing and forgot nothing either and now Stormont is the biggest White Elephant in the Western world.
Deaglan De Bréadún writing in the Irish Times on the UUP conference. Monday 27 October.
The subsequent action of the leadership has made a liar out of me, out of every candidate and out of every person who campaigned in the general election.
UUP member Ian Crozier at the UUP conference talking about the Unionist pledge that Sinn Féin would not get into talks without the IRA handing over their weapons
Anti-northern comments by Liz Ryan writing about Mary McAleese in the Evening Herald. Thursday 23 October.
South Africa supports the present talks involving all stakeholders to resolve the conflict in Ireland. We trust that these talks, given the commitment already demonstrated by all leaders, will soon bring about peace and tranquillity in your beautiful island.
South Africa President Nelson Mandela in a message to the Irish people. Thursday 23 October.
The Tories should bury their heads in shame.
Gerry Adams on the BBC's Question Time in reply to the Tories squandering of the first ceasefire.
Members of the Maryfield secretariat are being given 48 hours from midnight tonight to resign or become legitimate targets.
Statement from the LVF threatening violence on members of the 26-County civil service if they did not leave the Six Counties.
The appallingly insensitive way refugees and asylum seekers are treated by the system we have created to `help' them in this country is a growing disgrace.
Editorial on treatment of refugees by the system. Evening Herald, Saturday 25 October.
An isolated opinionist, without any detectable political back-up.
The Sunday Tribune's Tallyman writing about Eoghan Harris. 26 October.
[John Bruton] has transformed the presidential election in the Republic of Ireland into a referendum on the Six Counties, on the unsavoury premise that we should not vote for Mary McAleese - and should insult the nationalist community there.
Tim Pat Coogan in Ireland on Sunday. 26 October.
It was said of the Bourbons that they had learnt nothing and forgotten nothing and that was their downfall. The Ulster Unionists of the Stormont era learnt nothing and forgot nothing either and now Stormont is the biggest White Elephant in the Western world.
Deaglan De Bréadún writing in the Irish Times on the UUP conference. Monday 27 October.
The subsequent action of the leadership has made a liar out of me, out of every candidate and out of every person who campaigned in the general election.
UUP member Ian Crozier at the UUP conference talking about the Unionist pledge that Sinn Féin would not get into talks without the IRA handing over their weapons