1 October 1998 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Daily life in Fatima Mansions is a feat of endurance... alongside the simmering despair at the level of degradation into which the estate has fallen there is a strong sense of an enduring social fabric and strong social networks which one would be hard-pressed to find on many private suburban extates.
Report by Dr Mary Corcoran on life in a Dublin city centre flats complex ravaged by poverty and drugs. Irish Times, Thursday 24 September.
It's unfortunate that Catholic businesses have been damaged... When the parade will go down the hill that will solve the problem.
Portadown Orangeman Davy Jones on attacks on Catholic businesses last week.
I have honoured every commitment [of the Agreement] but it is not in our gift to deliver decommissioning.
Gerry Adams speaking last week.
I have made it clear to the two governments, I have made it clear to Mr Trimble and everyone else that there must be a shadow executive, that I will not break the Agreement by agreeing to a contrived situation to cover up the fact that the shadow executive has not yet been formed.
Séamus Mallon
Séamus Mallon is obviously dealing with the reality that we need to see as a matter of urgency the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
Martin McGuinness on Mallon's statement.
I look around this hall and I know we shall be free.
SNP leader Alex Salmond at the party's annual conference in Inverness, Scotland.
Cases like the Nicky Kelly case highlighted the dangers of conferring wide-ranging powers on the police without the corresponding safeguards. The experience of Irish suspects in Britain during the same period still serves as a powerful reminder of the risks inherent in excessive police powers.
Harry McGee writing in the Sunday Tribune on previous miscarriages of justices brought about by repressive state legislation.
Deep in the nationalist and republican psyche there's a parallel fear that given the opportunity loyalists and unionists with their handguns, shotguns and .22 rifles in co-operation with the RUC and Royal Irish Regiment will turn on them, when most vulnerable. For many that will be when the IRA has handed over all its weapons... At the moment there are 138,727 legally-held firearms in the North... ``They can't all be for shooting rabbits,'' as one Sinn Féin official said.
Gerry Moriarty writing on decommissioning in the Irish Times. Monday 28 September.
Yet another Saturday in Portadown has been disrupted by protestors demanding that the Orange Order march banned from the Garvaghy Road be allowed to march... The real nonsense of the situation is that the Orange Order and its supporters are slowly bringing Portadown to its knees by insisting they should be allowed to march where they are not wanted.
Editorial in the Irish News. Monday 28 September.
The aim of democratic Irish opinion, democratic opinion in Britain and internationally must seek a change in British policy from one of upholding the Union to one of ending the Union.
Gerry Adams speaking at the British Labour Party Conference.
Report by Dr Mary Corcoran on life in a Dublin city centre flats complex ravaged by poverty and drugs. Irish Times, Thursday 24 September.
It's unfortunate that Catholic businesses have been damaged... When the parade will go down the hill that will solve the problem.
Portadown Orangeman Davy Jones on attacks on Catholic businesses last week.
I have honoured every commitment [of the Agreement] but it is not in our gift to deliver decommissioning.
Gerry Adams speaking last week.
I have made it clear to the two governments, I have made it clear to Mr Trimble and everyone else that there must be a shadow executive, that I will not break the Agreement by agreeing to a contrived situation to cover up the fact that the shadow executive has not yet been formed.
Séamus Mallon
Séamus Mallon is obviously dealing with the reality that we need to see as a matter of urgency the full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement.
Martin McGuinness on Mallon's statement.
I look around this hall and I know we shall be free.
SNP leader Alex Salmond at the party's annual conference in Inverness, Scotland.
Cases like the Nicky Kelly case highlighted the dangers of conferring wide-ranging powers on the police without the corresponding safeguards. The experience of Irish suspects in Britain during the same period still serves as a powerful reminder of the risks inherent in excessive police powers.
Harry McGee writing in the Sunday Tribune on previous miscarriages of justices brought about by repressive state legislation.
Deep in the nationalist and republican psyche there's a parallel fear that given the opportunity loyalists and unionists with their handguns, shotguns and .22 rifles in co-operation with the RUC and Royal Irish Regiment will turn on them, when most vulnerable. For many that will be when the IRA has handed over all its weapons... At the moment there are 138,727 legally-held firearms in the North... ``They can't all be for shooting rabbits,'' as one Sinn Féin official said.
Gerry Moriarty writing on decommissioning in the Irish Times. Monday 28 September.
Yet another Saturday in Portadown has been disrupted by protestors demanding that the Orange Order march banned from the Garvaghy Road be allowed to march... The real nonsense of the situation is that the Orange Order and its supporters are slowly bringing Portadown to its knees by insisting they should be allowed to march where they are not wanted.
Editorial in the Irish News. Monday 28 September.
The aim of democratic Irish opinion, democratic opinion in Britain and internationally must seek a change in British policy from one of upholding the Union to one of ending the Union.
Gerry Adams speaking at the British Labour Party Conference.