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12 March 1998 Edition

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The perpetrators are in fact attempting to minimilise the potential for change by terrorising people into accepting less than is required to build a permanent peace.

Gerry Adams on the killings in Poyntzpass last week. Wednesday 4 March.

 


People are selling off books, clothes, furniture - and in some cases their body organs - just to survive... 1.1 million Iraqi children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition... Of these 330,000 are starving to death.

Lara Marlowe's report from Iraq on US led UN sanctions. Irish Times, Friday 6 March.

 


Already in the bank.

Senior British source on the 26-County's flexibilty on the Articles 2 & 3 issue. Irish Times, Friday 6 March.

 


No wording has emerged yet on Articles Two and Three, but government sources say that both will be changed.

Stephen Collins in the Sunday Tribune. 8 March.

 


The overnight shelters which cater for those with no fixed abode are completely full on a nightly basis. They are now taking in their total capacity of around 800 and turning dozens away. Up to nine months ago, they would often end up with 15 free beds... homeless or concerned persons attending their services [voluntary agencies] have increased from 3,533 to 6,126.

Mark Keenan writing in the Sunday Tribune on the increase in homelessness in Dublin. 8 March.

 


The contents of the paper over the period of the peace process are on record. They cannot be denied and, when the dust settles on the peace process and historians study that paper's contribution, it will be found to have been a disgraceful one.

Tim Pat Coogan on the Sunday Independent. Ireland On Sunday, 8 March.

 


It's simply not possible to equate St Patrick's celebrations, which record the coming of christianity to these islands, with a triumhpalist celebration of a victory in war. But it would have been possible to extend the hand of friendship by inviting Orange people to the Aras to celebrate the joint Protestant-Catholic heritage of Patrick.

Tim Pat Coogan on Mary McAleese's idea of a celebration of the 12th. Ireland On Sunday, 8 March.

 


I suppose when it comes down to it, our politics aren't sexy enough.

SDLP's Mark Durkan on his own party.

 


In the eyes of the LVF, Paisley has got it absoluteley right.

LVF representative in the Sunday Times. 8 March.

 


DUP figures have gone out of their way to turn the association between their party and the LVF into a significant issue. By their own words and deeds, they stand indicted today.

Editorial in the Irish News. Monday 9 March.

 


If the British Government had any intention of building up the confidence of people in Northern Ireland they would shut down Castlereagh holding centre.

Bernadette McAliskey, following the British decision not to extradite her daughter, Róisín, to Germany.

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