The great problem was allowing the 26 Counties to
secede from the Union and from that a lot of
difficulties have stemmed... The British Isles is the
natural, social, and economic unit.
David Trimble to the National Press Club, Washington
DC. 17 March.
From its inception, capitalism has been an
ever-expanding system of exploitation, production and
exchange. Perhaps no one predicted this better than
Karl Marx... Unfortunately his stigmatisation by
regressive Stalinist states and the ideologically
driven ridicule of his credentials by Western
intellectuals have tended to consign the great wealth
of his ideas and insights - written 150 years ago when
he was not yet 30 - to the dustbin of history.
Finian Cunningham writing in the Irish Times on Karl
Marx and the 150th anniversary of the Communist
Manifesto. Saturday 21 March.
I am shocked and horrified that the Irish government is
preparing to delete Article 2 of the constitution. How
can the Irish government consider telling northern
nationalists that the land they and their ancestors
have lived in for millenna is not Ireland.
Letter in the Irish Times. Saturday 21 March.
Nationalist expectations are so high that Mickey Mouse
cross-border bodies will not suffice.
Sinn Féin Vice President Pat Doherty. Sunday Business
Post. 22 March.
The Irish government is prepared to concede in 1998
what nationalists were unwilling to contemplate in 1918
- namely, Britain's right to partition Ireland.
Donnacha Vaughan on the proposed changes in Article 2
and 3. Sunday Business Post. 22 March.
We don't need a Parades Commission to stop Orangemen
coming down this road. They (unionists) need a change
of heart, a change of mindset.
Francie Molloy speaking at march to oppose Orange
marches through nationalist areas last Sunday on
Portadown's Garvaghy Road.
If the SDLP were to abandon Sinn Féin, dissolve the
still flourishing Hume/Adams partnership and sign on
with the Ulster Unionists, what would the consequences
be at the polls? Sinn Féin and its supporters insist
the mood of the nationalist population is shifting
their way and the greening of northern Catholics,
including members of the middle class, has not escaped
unionist notice either. There is matter here to keep
SDLP members and ideed Dublin administration awake at
night.
Deaglán De Bréadún in the Irish Times. Monday 23 March.
The expectation within nationalist Ireland, and, if I
may say so, within unionism as well is that there has
to be an agreement based upon substative changes in all
areas, consitutional, political, institutional,
economic, social and cultural matters.
Gerry Adams. Irish News, Monday 23 March.
It's a bit like being in the Mafia... The only twinge
of guilt I ever get is when an operation doesn't go
according to plan.
Loyalist death squad leader in an interview with The
Big Issues magazine.
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