7 January 1999 Edition
Dúirt siad...
We welcome the release from Portlaoise Prison of these four republican prisoners. While we are conscious of the hurt involved for the bereaved families today's releases will see these men re-united with their families having served long periods of time in jail.
Martin Ferris welcoming the release of the 40-year men from Portlaoise before Christmas.
The plight of the Roma highlights the failure of our present refugee and immigration laws. Asylum seekers live in fear while they await adjudication. They are not allowed to work and must depend on social welfare. This must change. We need a new policy which recognises that we are a multi-cultural society. We have nothing to fear from people of different cultures coming to live and work in Ireland.
Caoimhghín O Cáoláin after meeting with Bertie Ahern with a Monaghan delegation that supports the rights of Roma refugees currently awaiting deportation from the 26 Counties.
I am not saying that I am an angel and or that I have never been involved in anything but this was a frame up just to get me off the streets. I am confident that this case will expose a dirty tricks campaign by the British Army.
Saoirse chairperson and Sinn Féin candidate Martin Meehan on the news that his 12-year sentence for kidnapping and false imprisonment charges is to be reviewed.
It was an attack on the entire civil rights Movement and it was symptomatic of the Stormont government's attitude to peaceful protest. The events at Burntollet Bridge had a profound impact on the history of the Six Counties and was one of a series of events which happened 30 years ago which affected the lives of thousands of people.
Barney O'Hagan of the Friends of `69 group at the 30th anniversary of the attack by loyalists on the Burntollet civil rights march.
Like many generations of republicans who preceded him and like those who followed him, he drew his inspiration from a political philosophy first articulated by the father of Irish republicanism Thoebald Wolfe Tone, who said: ``To subvert the tyranny of execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never ending failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country - these are my objects''.
Sligo Sinn Féin Alderman Seán MacManus speaking at the annual Seán Sabhat commemoration in Limerick on 3 January.
Mr Farren's acceptance that the February deadline for the formation of the executive and the all-Ireland Ministerial Council can be extended to Easter is totally unacceptable. There has already been a two months delay in the formation of these bodies. Any further delay would undermine public credibility in the Good Friday Agreement.
Mitchel McLaughlin replying to the SDLP's suggestion that the North-South bodies deadline for establishment could be delayed to Easter. Irish News, Wednesday 6 January.
Whatever voters may feel about this state of affairs, they certainly cannot complain about a lack of variety within unionist politics.
Irish News editorial on yet another split in unionism, this time Robert McCartney's UK Unionists. Wednesday 6 January.
Martin Ferris welcoming the release of the 40-year men from Portlaoise before Christmas.
The plight of the Roma highlights the failure of our present refugee and immigration laws. Asylum seekers live in fear while they await adjudication. They are not allowed to work and must depend on social welfare. This must change. We need a new policy which recognises that we are a multi-cultural society. We have nothing to fear from people of different cultures coming to live and work in Ireland.
Caoimhghín O Cáoláin after meeting with Bertie Ahern with a Monaghan delegation that supports the rights of Roma refugees currently awaiting deportation from the 26 Counties.
I am not saying that I am an angel and or that I have never been involved in anything but this was a frame up just to get me off the streets. I am confident that this case will expose a dirty tricks campaign by the British Army.
Saoirse chairperson and Sinn Féin candidate Martin Meehan on the news that his 12-year sentence for kidnapping and false imprisonment charges is to be reviewed.
It was an attack on the entire civil rights Movement and it was symptomatic of the Stormont government's attitude to peaceful protest. The events at Burntollet Bridge had a profound impact on the history of the Six Counties and was one of a series of events which happened 30 years ago which affected the lives of thousands of people.
Barney O'Hagan of the Friends of `69 group at the 30th anniversary of the attack by loyalists on the Burntollet civil rights march.
Like many generations of republicans who preceded him and like those who followed him, he drew his inspiration from a political philosophy first articulated by the father of Irish republicanism Thoebald Wolfe Tone, who said: ``To subvert the tyranny of execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never ending failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country - these are my objects''.
Sligo Sinn Féin Alderman Seán MacManus speaking at the annual Seán Sabhat commemoration in Limerick on 3 January.
Mr Farren's acceptance that the February deadline for the formation of the executive and the all-Ireland Ministerial Council can be extended to Easter is totally unacceptable. There has already been a two months delay in the formation of these bodies. Any further delay would undermine public credibility in the Good Friday Agreement.
Mitchel McLaughlin replying to the SDLP's suggestion that the North-South bodies deadline for establishment could be delayed to Easter. Irish News, Wednesday 6 January.
Whatever voters may feel about this state of affairs, they certainly cannot complain about a lack of variety within unionist politics.
Irish News editorial on yet another split in unionism, this time Robert McCartney's UK Unionists. Wednesday 6 January.