Stop seeking excuses for not talking.
Mitchel McLaughlin on David Trimble's excuses for not sitting
down face to face with Sinn Féin on 15 September, Irish Times
Thursday 28 August.
It is as if people want to bury what happened... but with a peace
process now it's time for a truth commission to be established.
Spokesperson for the Justice for the Forgotten campaign on the
failure of Dublin/Monaghan bombings victims' releatives to secure
Garda files. Irish News, Friday 29 August.
Clearly we have an awesome task before us.
Martin McGuinness, Irish Times Saturday 30 August.
How do they propose to achieve lasting agreement in our community
if they are going to reject the current process?
John Hume on the attitude of the unionist parties, quoted in the
Irish Times, Saturday 30 August.
In France or Italy, a judge or magistrate is appointed to look
into any claims of impropriety. If they find there is prima facie
evidence of corruption, the case comes before a full trial.
A Labour Party spokesman on the new tribunal being set up by the
Dublin government into political malpractice. The Sunday Business
Post, 31 August.
I don't want it to be seen as in some way a political issue.
Mary Robinson on whether the 26-County state should rejoin the
Commonwealth. Quoted in the Sunday Business Post, 31 August.
As far as I am concerned they are insignificant criminals.
Billy Hutchinson speaking about the UVF. Sunday Business Post, 31
August.
If I am wrong let them say so. Let them tell the Irish people
that they have no interest in maintaining the Union. That their
preference is for the people of Ireland to reach a national
consensus on the society which suits our needs best. That it is
for the people of Ireland alone to reach agreement on this and to
determine the agreement involved without British interference.
Gerry Adams in the Irish News, Monday 1 September.
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