21 January 1999 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Very few of these offences will ever be brought to court. This is the only way victims can find out the truth.
Former RUC officer John Weir, jailed for sectarian murder, on the establishment of a South African style Truth Commission for victims' relatives.
I challenge the rector to tell me how the Orangemen, in refusing to engage in dialogue with the elected representatives of the Garvaghy residents and insisting on their right to march irrespective of the wishes of the host community, are in accordance with scriptures. Does the Biblical exhortation to ``love your neighbour as yourself'' mean anything to the Reverend Pickering?
Letter in the Irish News on Drumcree clergymen and their attitude to the ongoing siege. Friday 15 January.
The UN would sell them out tomorrow if they thought they'd get away with it... [the situation] is an exact replica of what Saddam Hussein did in Kuwait. It's just this time they decided to back the aggressor... Do we believe in democracy? If we do believe in democracy, we have to support those who struggle for it, not arm the thugs who beat and brutalise those who call for it.
Tom Hyland of the Irish East Timor Campaign on the ongoing occupation of the country by Indonesian troops. The Examiner, Monday 18 January.
There was a television programme called the Cutting Edge, and on that programme it was said he had a wafer thin majority. I want to tell you: that majority will go like snow off the ditch as he pursues his way to bring about the policy of a united Ireland which is written into the Agreement.
Ian Paisley in the Assembly this week. Irish News, Tuesday 19 January.
If you have an army, you need a use for it. The EU is ready and willing to find a usefor our army. And within both the military and political establishment here influential figures are already busy preparing the ground for membership of what will be, no matter how it is dressed up, a European Army serving a European super-state. Is that what we want? Do you want your son, who may well be conscripted, figthing in Bosnia under an EU flag? Or fighting in Russia in 2010? Or God knows where in 2020?
Examiner columnist TP O'Mahoney in a column titled `It's time we talked about decommissioning the EU'. Tuesday 19 January.
It must be that no matter who you are, whether a head of state, a government official or a public official, you have individual, personal responsibility in respect of a category of crimes recognised internationally as particularly odious, such as genocide, torture, and taking hostages. Somewhere a line has to be drawn between actions which are the functions of a head of state, and those which are not.
Alan Jones, QC for the Spanish government in the General Pinochet hearing in London lthis week.
The Good Friday Agreement, its institutions and propositions covering policing, human rights and equality are critical parts of that process. Real peace is only possible if we confront and overcome the causes of conflict, not by running away from them.
Gerry Adams, Irish News, Wednesday 20 January.
Former RUC officer John Weir, jailed for sectarian murder, on the establishment of a South African style Truth Commission for victims' relatives.
I challenge the rector to tell me how the Orangemen, in refusing to engage in dialogue with the elected representatives of the Garvaghy residents and insisting on their right to march irrespective of the wishes of the host community, are in accordance with scriptures. Does the Biblical exhortation to ``love your neighbour as yourself'' mean anything to the Reverend Pickering?
Letter in the Irish News on Drumcree clergymen and their attitude to the ongoing siege. Friday 15 January.
The UN would sell them out tomorrow if they thought they'd get away with it... [the situation] is an exact replica of what Saddam Hussein did in Kuwait. It's just this time they decided to back the aggressor... Do we believe in democracy? If we do believe in democracy, we have to support those who struggle for it, not arm the thugs who beat and brutalise those who call for it.
Tom Hyland of the Irish East Timor Campaign on the ongoing occupation of the country by Indonesian troops. The Examiner, Monday 18 January.
There was a television programme called the Cutting Edge, and on that programme it was said he had a wafer thin majority. I want to tell you: that majority will go like snow off the ditch as he pursues his way to bring about the policy of a united Ireland which is written into the Agreement.
Ian Paisley in the Assembly this week. Irish News, Tuesday 19 January.
If you have an army, you need a use for it. The EU is ready and willing to find a usefor our army. And within both the military and political establishment here influential figures are already busy preparing the ground for membership of what will be, no matter how it is dressed up, a European Army serving a European super-state. Is that what we want? Do you want your son, who may well be conscripted, figthing in Bosnia under an EU flag? Or fighting in Russia in 2010? Or God knows where in 2020?
Examiner columnist TP O'Mahoney in a column titled `It's time we talked about decommissioning the EU'. Tuesday 19 January.
It must be that no matter who you are, whether a head of state, a government official or a public official, you have individual, personal responsibility in respect of a category of crimes recognised internationally as particularly odious, such as genocide, torture, and taking hostages. Somewhere a line has to be drawn between actions which are the functions of a head of state, and those which are not.
Alan Jones, QC for the Spanish government in the General Pinochet hearing in London lthis week.
The Good Friday Agreement, its institutions and propositions covering policing, human rights and equality are critical parts of that process. Real peace is only possible if we confront and overcome the causes of conflict, not by running away from them.
Gerry Adams, Irish News, Wednesday 20 January.