An Phoblacht/Republican News  ·  Thursday November 30 1995

[An Phoblacht/Republican News]

Dúirt Siad

The only people who would like to hear a ringing declaration that the SDLP and Sinn Féin will not enter into any pact or agreement at this time are unionist MPs - the prospect of a free run for an agreed nationalist candidate makes them as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs. You don't have to Niccolo Machiavelli to appreciate that.

- Editorial, Andersonstown News, 25 November.

G'way ye wife-swopping sodomites!

- Una Bean Mhic Mathúna, No Divorce Campaigner taking her loss badly at the RDS count centre, 25 November.

Trimble didn't even bother to prepare a speech and spoke a lot of generalities. There is absolutely no pressure on him to get off his arse. We should be firing bullets at his feet instead of cuddling up to him.

- Unnamed Tory MP commenting on Unionist leader David trimble's performace at a function in Westminster last week. Quoted by Frank Connolly, Sunday Business Post, 26 November.

The British have decided to impose defeat and humiliation upon a section of the Six-County community which only became involved in armed resistance because it was hoplessly discriminated against over five decades. That decision is bizarre by any standards. In so doing the British have decided to impose continuing misery and suffering on these islands for the foreseeable future.

- Editorial, Sunday Business Post, 26 November.

The decommissioning issue is a false issue. It is false because the reality is that the guns are silent but the British government, for whatever reason, has impaled everyone on the decommisioning hook.

- Editorial, Sunday Tribune, 26 November.

De Klerk accepted that, in South Africa, insistence on the decommissioning of arms would have capsized the process... Patience and compromise are needed for a lasting settlement, but if you start negotiations you have to keep up the pace. All-party talks should begin as soon as possible after Clinton departs, and the decommissioning of weapons should be on the table.

- Editorial, Observer, 26 November.

The Catholic Church has gradually ousted its liberation theologians from positions of influence in Latin America, in a process which mirrors the rise of neo-liberal governments and the hegemony of free market economics. In the neo-liberal age, speculative capital is blessed, banks are sacred temples, money a holy sacrament and poverty dismissed as inefficiency, to be punished by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank ``adjustment'' measures.

- Michael McCaughan, The Irish Times, 28 November

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