5 March 1998 Edition
Dúirt siad...
It is a green light to members of the British crown forces that they can kill Irish civilians with impunity. The decision is in keeping with the reality that the British legal and political establishment has protected and provided legal cover for its killers over the past 30 years.
Gerry Adams after the announcement of a retrial for British Paratrooper Lee Clegg for the murder of West Belfast teenager Karen Reilly.
To get an idea of the contempt with which Irish victims of British military violence are viewed one need only remember the scene in the Parachute regiment's barracks.
Irish News editorial on the release of Lee Clegg, and the mural in an officer's mess glorifying the killings of Karen Reilly.
Get behind the leadership; stay behind the leadership of the Republican Movement and demonstrate that we as republicans are prepared to be sensible, to be flexible and to be supportive of any agreement which brings peace to our island that is consistent with the republican analysis.
Sinn Féin Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin. Thursday 26 February.
Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work we go.
Scabbing Ryanair workers' taunts to striking workers from the company's upper windows at Dublin Airport during a support march for the striking workers by trade unionists last Friday.
I value the Union.
Mo Mowlam in an interview with the Irish Times. Saturday 28 February.
If Bertie Ahern seeks to redefine the Irish nation as anything other than at least the island of Ireland, then he faces big trouble on several fronts. It's not just Sinn Féin and the republican family that will hit the roof.
Damien Kiberd, Sunday Business Post. 1 March.
The workers don't count. In fact the great examples are the banks, who maximise their profits by the hour, while minimising their staff - and their services. Try cashing your pay cheque, if you have one, at a bank in Ballymun.
Tim Pat Coogan on the Ryanair dispute, Ireland On Sunday. 1 March
The state has paid out tens of millions of pounds to fund tribunals into political scandals but, despite public outrage and intense media scrutiny, the hearings have failed to result in a single prosecution.
Kevin McDermott writing in Ireland On Sunday on `The Land of the Tribunal'. 28 February.
It is clear that the rights of Irish nationalists in the North are not safe under any kind of British jurisdiction... It is up to the Dublin government to work together with Sinn Féin and the SDLP to bring about radically new political institutions which are broadly acceptable to northern nationalists and which in effect means the end of partition.
Fr Joe McVeigh writing in the Irish News. Monday 2 March.
Gerry Adams after the announcement of a retrial for British Paratrooper Lee Clegg for the murder of West Belfast teenager Karen Reilly.
To get an idea of the contempt with which Irish victims of British military violence are viewed one need only remember the scene in the Parachute regiment's barracks.
Irish News editorial on the release of Lee Clegg, and the mural in an officer's mess glorifying the killings of Karen Reilly.
Get behind the leadership; stay behind the leadership of the Republican Movement and demonstrate that we as republicans are prepared to be sensible, to be flexible and to be supportive of any agreement which brings peace to our island that is consistent with the republican analysis.
Sinn Féin Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin. Thursday 26 February.
Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work we go.
Scabbing Ryanair workers' taunts to striking workers from the company's upper windows at Dublin Airport during a support march for the striking workers by trade unionists last Friday.
I value the Union.
Mo Mowlam in an interview with the Irish Times. Saturday 28 February.
If Bertie Ahern seeks to redefine the Irish nation as anything other than at least the island of Ireland, then he faces big trouble on several fronts. It's not just Sinn Féin and the republican family that will hit the roof.
Damien Kiberd, Sunday Business Post. 1 March.
The workers don't count. In fact the great examples are the banks, who maximise their profits by the hour, while minimising their staff - and their services. Try cashing your pay cheque, if you have one, at a bank in Ballymun.
Tim Pat Coogan on the Ryanair dispute, Ireland On Sunday. 1 March
The state has paid out tens of millions of pounds to fund tribunals into political scandals but, despite public outrage and intense media scrutiny, the hearings have failed to result in a single prosecution.
Kevin McDermott writing in Ireland On Sunday on `The Land of the Tribunal'. 28 February.
It is clear that the rights of Irish nationalists in the North are not safe under any kind of British jurisdiction... It is up to the Dublin government to work together with Sinn Féin and the SDLP to bring about radically new political institutions which are broadly acceptable to northern nationalists and which in effect means the end of partition.
Fr Joe McVeigh writing in the Irish News. Monday 2 March.