He got a kicking from the peelers, a kicking from the Brits and
then they tried to recruit him as an informer. What has gone on
up there is mass punishment.
Breandán Mac Cionnaith on his nephew's treatment by the crown
forces in the aftermath of the killing of the two RUC men in
Lurgan.
Loyalist paramilitaries under the Combined Loyalist Military
Command umbrella... It has all the hallmarks of a measured
response to the killings of the policemen.
PUP's Billy Hutchinson in response to the loyalist car-bomb
attack on a former INLA prisoner and his companion, Sunday
Tribune, 22 June.
When Blair mentioned, threateningly, the danger of the peace
train leaving without Sinn Féin on board, their response was
simply to wonder had he the wherewithal to guard the tracks.
Tom McGurk on the attitudes of republicans to the peace process.
The Sinn Féin leadership is not giving up on our peace strategy.
We will not be deflected. We will not shirk our responsibilities.
Martin McGuinness speaking at the annual Wolfe Tone.commemoration
at Bodenstown.
Rather than eyeballing us, governments and political leaders
should be applying themselves to making change and creating
justice.
Martin McGuinness at the annual Wolfe Tone commemoration in
Bodenstown.
No one, but no one, dares venture into Portadown town centre
after the hours of darkness - especially on a Saturday night.
This is the reality of life for Catholics on the Garvaghy Road.
Michael O'Toole in the Irish News, Monday 23 June.
For the past 41 weeks the congregation at Our Lady's Church has
experienced verbal and physical harassment on its way to and from
Saturday evening Mass. Now that congregation has voluntarily
decided to forgo its right to celebrate Mass in the interests of
the common good.
Statement of SDLP representatives Seán Farren, PJ McAvoy and
Declan O'Loan on the decision to suspend Saturday evening Mass at
Harryville. Irish News, Monday 23 June.
It was a pretty amoral way to grab hold of some territory, but
there you are.
Capt Clayton, last commander of a British warship to leave Hong
Kong, on his country's inglorious capture of the 80 sq km
territory through the Opium Wars. Irish Times, Tuesday 24 June.
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