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Mr. Paisley has suggested that every secretary of state since direct rule, and indeed every Ulster Unionist leader over an even longer period, should `pack their bags'. Such calls are part of the ritual of politics here, and are seldom taken seriously beyond the ranks of the DUP.

Editorial in the Irish News last Thursday

 


It is insulting to suggest that this long march is in any way similar to that of January 1969 when in fact it is the ultimate display of unionist bigotry.

Letter to the Irish News on the loyalist `long march'

 


Martin Luther King's march to Washington had the support of all churches in the United States, both Catholic and Protestant. This loyalist march, however, doesn't even have the support of the North's Protestant churches.

Bogside Residents' spokeperson Donncha Mac Niallais on the `long march'

 


Like much in the thinking - or rantings - of the loyalists, they got it wrong...

Examiner columnist Pat Brosnan on the `long march'

 


The rate announced by the government is at least 8% below what it should be and as such represents an effective pay cut.

Union officer John Douglas on the announcement by the 26-County government of a new national wage, which unions say will widen the gap between rich and poor

 


It is disgraceful that this visit has been allowed by the Department of Foreign Affairs. This British warship is not welcome in Dublin. The visit, like that of the Red Arrows to Galway, is clearly part of the propaganda effort to prepare this state for membership of NATO's so-called Partnership for Peace.

Dublin Sinn Féin Councillor Larry O'Toole on the visit of a British warship to Dublin last week

 


The IRA, in the face of all this, have been remarkably disciplined.

Gerry Adams on recent pressures on the peace process

 


Not guilty to the charge you have put to me tonight. At the time, I was a police informer for Special Branch. On the night of the death of Patrick Finucane, I informed Special Branch on two occasions by telephone that a person was to be shot. I did not know at the time of the name of the person who was to be shot.

Former British soldier Alfred Stobie after being charged with the murder of Pat Finucane ten years ago

 


There's no use in pretending that the situation is not extremely dangerous. The prospect of the Orangmen trying to break the peace - or the hero of Panorama, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, trying to keep it - is not a pretty sight.

Tin Pat Coogan in Ireland On Sunday, 27 June

 


The correct and only decision. The Portadown Lodge should immediately call off its protest and enter face to face dialogue with local residents.

Dara O'Hagan, Sinn Féin Assembly member for Upper Bann, on the Parades Commission statement that the Orange parade at Drumcree should not go down the Garvaghy Road

 


At the moment, he is going against not just his own bishop, but the stated will of the Church of Ireland.

Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Dr Walton Empey, criticising the Rector of Drumcree, Reverend John Pickering, who has again invited the Orange Order to Drumcree this Sunday

 


The only test that Sinn Féin had to pass to get into the Executive was to get the required mandate.

Martin McGuinness, the Irish Times, 28 June

 


History suggests the Good Friday Agreement is the best hope yet.

Ryle Dwyer, The Examiner, June 28

 


The IRA could take out the United States army in two minutes

Shane McGowan, during the New York Fleadh

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