The Garvaghy Road is a nationalist enclave in a sea of loyalism.
The people who live there know if they are in the wrong place at
the wrong time, they could be killed. It happened to Robert
Hamill, kicked to death in the town centre, and now the victim
was Adrian Lamph.
Irish Times columnist Deaglán De Bréadún on the murder of
Catholic worker Adrian Lamph in Portadown last week. Saturday 25
April.
The long-term political implications are two-fold [to Paisley's
opposition]: the majority of unionist political representatives
may very well arrive at the Assembly determined to rewrite the
Good Friday Agreement; and the agreement, because its minority
inbuilt devices can be turned by anti-agreement unionism into its
weakest link, may not survive a unionist political majority
opposed to it. I don't want to deflate the understandable
political euphoria this Sunday morning, but Tony Blair might be
closer to seeing, like Banquo's ghost, the unquiet spectre of the
late Brian Faulkner, than he might think.
Tom McGurk on the Agreement. Sunday Business Post, 26 April.
Not only is this treaty physically inaccessible, but when you do
get hold of it, it is almost incomprehensible. Ironically, one of
the provisions of the treaty is greater openness and a right to
access to EU documents... Holding the Amsterdamn Treaty
referendum on 22 May is a scandal. To date the government has
made no real attempt to inform the public.
Breda O'Brien in the Sunday Business Post. 26 April.
Over 80% of the police in Portadown are local people... For them
the Orange march down Garvaghy Road is something personal. When
they beat us for the Orange Order, they're beating us for
themselves.
A school friend of murdered Portadown Catholic Adrian Lamph on
the murder and Orange marches in Ireland On Sunday. 26 April.
As in 1798 when the rebels rose up they were crushed by
government forces assisted by Orangemen. In 1998 the rebels and
traitors in this land should again by crushed by the government
and the Orangemen will be ready to help.
Ballynafeigh Orange lodge chaplain Reverend William Hoey to an
Orange march after it was blocked from parading down the Ormeau
Road. Sunday 26 April.
The media coverge of the murder has also come under the
spotlight. While on Saturday lunchtime one o'clock UK national
BBC news bulletin did not include the murder among seven stories
they carried.
Report in the Irish News following the murder of Ciarán Heffron
in Crumlin, County Antrim.
Sinn Féin activists have a working assumption that offices and
homes are routinely targeted by the British for surveillance. At
a time when Sinn Féin was involved in serious negotiations with
the British government this was clearly an act of bad faith.
Sinn Féin negotiator Gerry Kelly on British Intelligence bugging
of republicans. Monday 28 April
ETA stresses that it is very important that new forces, trends
and attitudes join to fight for independence and that there are
more people now who claim a solution through dialogue and
negotiation. ETA, regardless of similarities and differences
bewteen both conflicts, has an enormous respect for and shows
complete solidarity with Irish republicans; in fact ETA is ready
to learn from this experience.
ETA communiques headed `Recent events may bring about
significant changes in the conflict'. Wednesday 29 April.
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