Are you one of these boring activists as well? Because if you are
I'm not talking to you.
Boyzone manager Louis Walsh on being contacted by the Irish Times
about the band's tour of Indonesia.
The function of the RUC was instilled in its members from its
foundation in 1921. It was to protect British interests and the
unionist ethos to the exclusion of all others. They have been a
unionist force policing a unionist state for unionists.
Dodie McGuinness at the press conference in Belfast on 21 August
calling for the disbandment of the RUC.
Will it change anything of the Catholic Churches attitude? On
their track record to date, it'll change nothing.
Solicitor for paedophile priest Brendan Smyth's victims after
hearing of his death. Irish Times, Saturday 23 August.
There is a tremendous enthusiasm for Sinn Féin; their turnout is
very high. I know the SDLP would complain there is an element of
cheating, but I have been used to those allegations from many
sources and I find them greatly exaggerated.
UUP MP John Taylor in an interview with Frank Connolly in the
Sunday Business Post, 24 August.
Of course there must be equal opportunity for everyone, but not
equality. You cannot expect the Irish minority in NI to be equal
to the majority.
John Taylor again on nationalist equality in the Orange state.
Ireland's era of government by stroke, the culture of politics
which admingled power, money, connections, inside information and
favours has its nemesis today. Or so it would be comforting to
believe.
Irish Times editorial on the publication of the McCracken
tribunal report, Monday 25 August.
This is a bleak report. It finds that a former Taoiseach, and a
close confidant of another Taoiseach, behaved in a manner that at
least opened the possibilty of bribery and corruption and at
worst may have been criminal.
Editorial in the Irish Independent on the McCracken report,
Tuesday 26 August.
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