12 August 1999 Edition
Dúirt siad...
Our reaction to this parade being forced down by the parades Commission is the same as our reaction was to parades being forced down by the RUC and anybody else.
Lower Ormeau spokesperson John Gormley on the Parades Commission's decision to allow the Apprentice Boys march down the Ormeau Road this Saturday
I think it is fair to say that there is a realisation on the part of the government and an acceptance of what we have been saying for a long time, that the proximity talks format is a failed format and the governments will examine other ways of how to move us into direct talks with the Orange Order.
Garvaghy Road spokesperson Breandán Mac Cionnaith last week following the failure of `proximity talks' with Orangemen
Jeffrey Donaldson has used every opportunity to undermine the peace process. He is the clear leader inside the UUP of the rejectionists and the wreckers... He wants peace only on his terms and these are not acceptable to nationalists and republicans.
Sinn Féin Assembly member Gerry Kelly last week on the Anti-Agreement Ulster Unionist MP
An inquiry held in private is not acceptable... [there is] strong evidence in the hands of the Irish government that there was British military involvement in the bombings.
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caoláin on the announcement of a private inquiry into the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings
One would expect an inquiry into events which took place a quarter of a century ago to be conducted in public. That would at least go some way towards assuaging long-held suspicions of a cover up over alleged involvement of elements of the Northern security forces in the bombings.
Examiner editorial on the bombing inquiry
Lord Widgery willingly facilitated a cover-up in the North [Bloody Sunday]. Are we about to go down the same road with the murders in Dublin and Monaghan.
Journalist T.P. O'Mahony on the decision, The Examiner, Tuesday 10 August
It will be stopped immediately. It is offensive to the people of Northern Ireland. This is part of the UK.
Craigavon Unionist Councillor Samual Gardiner after Amhrán na bhFiann was played accidentally to callers on hold to council offices
It is a sign of the times if you ask me.
Sinn Féin Councillor John O'Dowd on the `incident'
Lower Ormeau spokesperson John Gormley on the Parades Commission's decision to allow the Apprentice Boys march down the Ormeau Road this Saturday
I think it is fair to say that there is a realisation on the part of the government and an acceptance of what we have been saying for a long time, that the proximity talks format is a failed format and the governments will examine other ways of how to move us into direct talks with the Orange Order.
Garvaghy Road spokesperson Breandán Mac Cionnaith last week following the failure of `proximity talks' with Orangemen
Jeffrey Donaldson has used every opportunity to undermine the peace process. He is the clear leader inside the UUP of the rejectionists and the wreckers... He wants peace only on his terms and these are not acceptable to nationalists and republicans.
Sinn Féin Assembly member Gerry Kelly last week on the Anti-Agreement Ulster Unionist MP
An inquiry held in private is not acceptable... [there is] strong evidence in the hands of the Irish government that there was British military involvement in the bombings.
Sinn Féin TD Caoimhghín O Caoláin on the announcement of a private inquiry into the 1974 Dublin/Monaghan bombings
One would expect an inquiry into events which took place a quarter of a century ago to be conducted in public. That would at least go some way towards assuaging long-held suspicions of a cover up over alleged involvement of elements of the Northern security forces in the bombings.
Examiner editorial on the bombing inquiry
Lord Widgery willingly facilitated a cover-up in the North [Bloody Sunday]. Are we about to go down the same road with the murders in Dublin and Monaghan.
Journalist T.P. O'Mahony on the decision, The Examiner, Tuesday 10 August
It will be stopped immediately. It is offensive to the people of Northern Ireland. This is part of the UK.
Craigavon Unionist Councillor Samual Gardiner after Amhrán na bhFiann was played accidentally to callers on hold to council offices
It is a sign of the times if you ask me.
Sinn Féin Councillor John O'Dowd on the `incident'