29 July 1999 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Unless the unionists and the British government play their part within this process, in my opinion there is no prospect whatsoever of the armed groups decommissioning... before next May. The unionists and the British government have to recognise there is no singular responsibilty on Sinn Féin to deal with the issue of decommissioning.
Martin McGuinness on decommissioning starting before May 2000, after meeting with Tony Blair last Thursday.
For the first time in recent history a person has testififed to the US Congress that their life has been threatened and seven months later has been murdered. This move by the US House of Representatives unamimously and resoundingly backs the call for a fully independent international investigation.
Ellen Weaver of the Rosemary Nelson Campaign welcoming the move of the US Congress to block funding to RUC training programmes.
The unionists have interpreted it as a veiled threat, but then again, to them anything the IRA say is a threat. Of course the IRA hasn't gone away. How could it? It's been around for 80 years and, before that, under various other names - the Fenians, Young Irelanders, United Irishmen. At present, there are hundreds of IRA personnel, outside and inside jail, staking their future and that of their children on the peace process delivering a workable political arrangement, a compromise, which delivers equality and justice and humiliates neither unionist nor republican.
Former An Phoblacht editor, Danny Morrison, writing in last Friday's Examiner.
IRA statements often resemble utterances from the Kremlin in the Soviet era.
Irish Independent editorial, last Friday.
We are real trouble here and let nobody be in any doubt about that.
Gery Adams after a two-hour meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair last Thursday, 22 July.
Nobody should underestimate the extent of the crisis we are in now.
Sinn Féin Ard Chomairle member Martin Ferris after the party's Ard Chomhairle met last Saturday, 24 July.
The current view is very angry, very negative.
Sinn Féin source on the proposed review of the peace process. Irish Times, Tuesday 27 July.
We don't see why British legislation should apply to an all-Ireland party. It would be an outrage and it would also be unenforcable.
Sinn Féin National Teasurer Dessie Mackin on new British legislation to curb party political donations from overseas.
Martin McGuinness on decommissioning starting before May 2000, after meeting with Tony Blair last Thursday.
For the first time in recent history a person has testififed to the US Congress that their life has been threatened and seven months later has been murdered. This move by the US House of Representatives unamimously and resoundingly backs the call for a fully independent international investigation.
Ellen Weaver of the Rosemary Nelson Campaign welcoming the move of the US Congress to block funding to RUC training programmes.
The unionists have interpreted it as a veiled threat, but then again, to them anything the IRA say is a threat. Of course the IRA hasn't gone away. How could it? It's been around for 80 years and, before that, under various other names - the Fenians, Young Irelanders, United Irishmen. At present, there are hundreds of IRA personnel, outside and inside jail, staking their future and that of their children on the peace process delivering a workable political arrangement, a compromise, which delivers equality and justice and humiliates neither unionist nor republican.
Former An Phoblacht editor, Danny Morrison, writing in last Friday's Examiner.
IRA statements often resemble utterances from the Kremlin in the Soviet era.
Irish Independent editorial, last Friday.
We are real trouble here and let nobody be in any doubt about that.
Gery Adams after a two-hour meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair last Thursday, 22 July.
Nobody should underestimate the extent of the crisis we are in now.
Sinn Féin Ard Chomairle member Martin Ferris after the party's Ard Chomhairle met last Saturday, 24 July.
The current view is very angry, very negative.
Sinn Féin source on the proposed review of the peace process. Irish Times, Tuesday 27 July.
We don't see why British legislation should apply to an all-Ireland party. It would be an outrage and it would also be unenforcable.
Sinn Féin National Teasurer Dessie Mackin on new British legislation to curb party political donations from overseas.