Republican News · Thursday 29 January 1998

[An Phoblacht]

A measured military response.

UDA/UFF statement describing their sectarian murders of Catholics.

 

Fergal's death was an act of bigotry; any Catholic would have done... Bigotry inflicts a kind of blindness that does not want to see the light.

Priest speaking at the funeral of South Derry LVF murder victim Fergal McCusker.

 

They have a purpose all right, and they make perfect sense to those who perpetuate them, the psychopathic thugs bred and nurtured in the loyalist warrens on a mother's milk diet of hatred for Catholics, and for whom the death of a Catholic is an occasion for rejoicing, the effective elimination of one a reason to boast. The hatred is seen at its most naked outside the church in Harryville, undisguised by the window dressing claim that their presence has something to do with the right to walk the ``Queen's highway''.

RTÉ broadcaster David Hanley writing in the Sunday Tribune, 25 January.

 

If I hadn't raised the number of Catholics who died all week, they wouldn't have been mentioned at all... And some unionists chatted to each other while I spoke.

Monica McWilliams of the Women's Coalition on her experience of unionists at the nearly all-unionist Belfast Forum. Quoted by Nell McCafferty. Sunday Tribune, 25 January.

 

Asked by one journalist if he ever had a Catholic in his car, he is said to have replied: ``Not a living one.''

ne Cadwallader on jailed loyalist killer Johnny Adair. Ireland On Sunday, 25 January.

 

It is probably ill-advised to present an award to a heroin dealer, even a reformed one.

TD Tony Gregory on the presentation later in the year of a Gaisce award to a former Dublin heroin dealer. Sunday Tribune, 25 January.

 

That's what we think of the Framework Document.

Jeffrey Donaldson after publicly tearing up the Framework Document. Tuessday 27 January

 

We're perfectly capable of saying No. After all it's going back to what we do best.

David Trimble on the Framework Document. Irish Times, Wednesday 28 January.


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