The LVF will remain in place until Dublin removes itself from
Stormont and the Irish government drops Articles Two and Three of
their constitution... [The 26-County government] wil pay a heavy
price for interference in the internal affairs of Northern
Ireland.
LVF statement received by the Belfast Telegargh stating their
refusal to call a ceasefire.
The killing, the battering, the matter of his disposal, those
were not the acts of sane individuals.
Priest at the funeral of County Down youth James Morgan, victim
of a vicious sectarian attack, Irish Times Thursday 31 July.
The saddest aspect of the whole episode has been watching
ordinary people venomously denounce the Travellers. That's how it
started in Germany.
Philip Nolan commenting on the Traveller-resident stand-off in
County Dublin, Evening Herald, Thursday 31 July.
The simple answer to the question put by the McCole family is
that their state saw Bridget Ellen McCole as an enemy. Obvious as
that answer now is, its implications remain almost unthinkable.
Fintan O'Toole in the Irish Times, Saturday 2 August.
The fact that unemployment is falling so little in the middle of
a boom should be of as much concern as the increases we saw
during the recession.
INOU national chairman Paul Billings quoted in the Irish Times,
Saturday 2 August.
As Minister for Social Welfare, he paraded himself as some sort
of socialist Santa Claus, a saintly bearded philanthropist
gaining personal political credit for dispensing other people's
money. He is not unique: politicians, as a class, frequently
claim the kudos for benefits bestowed on others via public funds.
Sam Smyth on Proinsias De Rossa, Sunday Tribune, 3 August.
I will hang, burn, waste, boil, fry, strangle and bury alive
these infamous heretics, rip up the stomachs of their women and
crush their infants' heads against the walls.
Writer in a Portadown `newspaper' on an oath apparently taken by
Jesuits to exterminate Protestants. Sunday Tribune 3 August.