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25 June 1998 Edition

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I think the way the stewards policed the nationalist areas is proof that they can police their own areas.

Anthony Barnes of the Community Response Against Sectarianism on the Tour of the North march last week.

 


A yob, a member of a right-wing group like the National Front or some nutters like that.

Orange Order spokesman on the arrest of an English football hooligan wearing Orange Order T-Shirts.

 


``This is an easy place to buy heroin. There is law but no order here,'' is one observer's view. Much of normal life goes on indoors. In the community centre there is hollow laughter among the women when they talk about their neighbourhood as Dublin's main heroin supermarket. ``It's Crazy Prices out there.''

Catherine Cleary's report on heroin dealing in Fatima Mansions in Dublin's South Inner City. Irish Times, Saturday 20 June.

 


They haven't gone away you know - no not the IRA, but the British Army which continues to be a looming presence in nationalist areas despite the peace process and the euphoria of the Stormont Agreement. If the peace process has signalled a new era, someone has forgotten to tell the military establishment which apparently continues trying to operate on a full war footing throughout the North.

Niall O'Dowd in Ireland On Sunday. 21 June.

 


If the Parades Commission rules against the Orange Order with respect to marching down the Garvaghy Road, and if the Spirit of Drumcree masses thousands there again, threatening to use - as they have said on record they would - whatever means necessary to force the march down, will the RUC let them through?

[RUC Chief] Flanagan: ``Absolutely.''

Question asked of Ronnie Flanagan on Drumcee this year by a Los Angeles based production company. Ireland On Sunday, 21 June.

 


If Flanagan is saying this to a US interviewer you can be sure he's saying the same thing to the [Parades] Commission and to the British government itself. Flanagan's interview puts into context the call made last week by Alastair Graham of the commission for pressure to be put on the nationalist community for compromise.

Breandán Mac Cionnaith of the Garvaghy Road Residents' Association. Ireland On Sunday, 21 June.

 


The Orangemen's determination to parade wherever they like is supported by Mo Mowlam and the British government. Otherwise they would have banned this offensive parade long ago.

Letter to the Irish Times from a group of Catholic priests. Saturday 20 June.

 


A red herring. I think far too much attention has been paid to this particular issue.

Martin McGuinness on decommissioning. Irish News, Monday 22 June.

 


The squabbling within unionism is a cancer.

Gary McMichael of the UDP calling for unionist unity. Irish News, Tuesday 23 June.

 


David Trimble intellectually knows there has to be change but emotionally he is in the No camp. When his emotions and his intellect are harmonised then you'll see the entire process starting to click.

Gerry Adams on Trimble's difficulties. Tuesday 23 June.

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