I am quite satisfied there was no evidence of forgery.
Handwriting expert James Nash at the Independent Newspapaers vs
De Rossa libel case on whether the DL leader signed the so-called
Moscow letter.
It's like saying that that man who ate humans, Jeffrey Dahmer,
was unfairly treated at his trial.
Spectator Ed Childs, at unveiling of the Famine Memorial to
arguments that Britain was being treated unfairly regarding
responsibility for the Famine. Irish Independent, Thursday 24
July.
Paisley and his cronies are interested in a future only if
unionism triumphs. If the IRA handed in every gun, bullet, and
ounce of Semtex they control, the rabid Paisleyites would come up
with some other excuse.
Examiner columnist Pat Brosnan, Friday 25 July.
To deliberately target the homes and property of your neighbour
on the basis of their religious convictions is anathema to
republicans and besmirches the republican ideal of Protestant,
Catholic and Dissenter living on this or any other part of the
island under the common name of Irishmen.
Sinn Féin Councillor John Kelly to the Protestant people of
Magherafelt and Swatragh on the sectarian vandalism and
anti-social behaviour after the Orange march was forced down the
Garvaghy Road. Irish Times, Friday 25 July.
The whole issue of the future of the island has to be up for
grabs.
Gerry Adams in an interview with Deaglán De Bréadún, Irish Times,
Saturday 26 July.
What we want is no more burning, but a nice Hong Kong solution,
with the smoked salmon ordered for the farewell banquet and a
definite date and time of departure for the royal yacht. And yes,
we will concede the right of every wet-eyed Brit who wept at the
leaving of Hong Kong to tell us that we owe it all to them, much
as the Chinese economic tigers learned everything they know from
English opium smugglers.
Vincent Jamison writing in his Food review column, Sunday
Business Post, 27 July.
d they have always instinctively believed that the road to
equality was also the road that leads out of the Union, they now
stand confused at the brink of the oblivion.
Tom McGurk on the unionists, Sunday Business Post, 27 July.