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What the SDLP needed was a deputy leader who would take the party by the scruff of the neck and shake it into shape for the next elections. It needed someone with no distractions and no baggage. That person os patently not Brid Rogers... What is always described on such occasions as 'the party faithful' ,chose to send a message which declared: 'Business as usual. We see no problem.'
— Brian Feeney in the Irish News, Wednesday 14 November


The decision by the Minister for Justice, Mr John O'Donoghue, to appoint an aminent legal person to examine rthe various reports and investigations connected with allegations of Garda wrongdoing in County Donegal is a limp response to a most serious situation.

- Irish Times editorial, Wednesday, 14 November


Many's the time I carried a hurl to school to protect myself. I know what it is to live in a home there and to have riots break out on your doorstep every single day.

- President Mary McAleese on the situation in North Belfast, The Sunday Independent, 11 November


I understand why the rule is there. I knew when I joined what I was giving up.

- Sean McNulty, a Catholic member of the RUC, on Rule 21, Ireland on Sunday, 11 November


Bertie should have gone to the country last June before the Celtic Tiger collapsed. There's no fallback plan to get us out of this mess.

— Two FF backbenchers talking about their unease at confronting an election next year, Ireland on Sunday, 11 November




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