Republican News · Thursday 13 February 1997

Once again, shamefully, the Conservative government has bowed to Ulster Unionist pressure - and all to get a few extra weeks in power! The Tories deserve to pay a heavy price at the polls for such lack of principle.

Irish Post editorial, Saturday 8 February.

If Harryville can be held until Easter, then the marching season will have begun and more loyalists wil rally round to our cause from other parts of Northern Ireland.

Former RUC member, convicted sectarian killer and Harryville protest organiser, William McCaughey, the Sunday Times, 9 February.

Romanist sun temple.

Ian Paisley describing the church in Harryville when it was built in the 1960s, the Sunday Times, 9 February.

The British keep changing the rules, but talking is the only way forward. clarity is required about what is in the British government's mind.

Gerry Adams, Irish Independent, Monday 10 February.

Patrick Mayhew is blaming the IRA on this [British government cuts]... The fact is that reductions in British public spending in the North have been happening for some years... These cuts were planned during the IRA cessation not after it.

Gerry Adams, speaking at the launch of Sinn Féin's economic document, Putting People First, Irish News, Monday 10 February.

d then the church was filled with the voices of the protestors singing. ``We are, we are, we are the Billy Boys,'' and boasting about how they were ``up to their necks in Fenian blood''.

Suzanne Breen reporting the chants of loyalists from the Catholic church in Harryville, Irish Times, Monday 10 February.

In 1993, and perhaps even in 1992, in the jaws of a very intense IRA campaign, a very intense loyalist campaign - loyalists were killing one Catholic a day in this city - and in the the teeth of a very aggressive British Army campaign, the British government were talking to us.

Gerry Adams speaking at a press conference in Belfast after being challenged on the abandoned IRA bomb in Strabane, Irish Times, Tuesday 11 February.

Trying to return to the shadowy, murky world of nationalism.

The Worker's Party's Des O'Hagan on those leaving the party due to recent splits and tensions, News at One, RTÉ, Tuesday 11 February.

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