Catholics in isolated Catholic communities have been badly
rattled in recent days, but at least they are still there.
Isolated Catholics in Protestant communities are not so lucky.
Soon there'll be no Catholics left in Carrickfergus or Dromore.
Another couple of Drumcrees and Orange mobs will have burnt,
intimidated or found a variety of other means to display their
concept of religious and civil liberty to Catholics - which seems
to be to watch as police escort Catholics out of the area.
Brian Feeney writing in the Irish News. Friday 10 July.
It's time for everybody to get real here. It's time for the
Orange Order and for unionism to waken up. The reality is that
the people we represent are no longer going to be second-class
citizens in their own country.
Martin McGuinnness on the Garvaghy Road last Thursday.
estimated 350,000 listeners to BBC Radio Ulster's Newsbreak
yesterday to witness the row over the fact that Orange Order
bosses were prepared to speak to a man who killed two Catholics,
but were not willing to talk with Breandán Mac Cionnaith, an
elected councillor.
Greg Harkin in the Examiner. Friday 10 July.
Unionist propaganda has been brilliant at emphasising the fears
that gave rise to the `siege' mentality of many Ulster unionists.
It has been equally brilliant at utterly ignoring the fact that
those who feel themselves under `siege' actually corralled a
substantial minority within their own `siege' state. We may
impatiently respond that that was then and this is now.
Unfortunately, then and now can not be so neatly segregated. For
the mindset of the marchers at Drumcree is absolutely consistent
with the core principles on which Northern Ireland was
established.
Professor Joe Lee. Sunday Tribune, 12 July.
I think it is going to take violence to get us down that road. It
will come to people being shot and the Protestant people are
prepared for that. If it is the only way we will get down the
road, then so be it.
Orange woman protestor at Drumcree. Sunday Times, 12 July.
I believe the Orange Order needs to call off its protests because
we can't control them.
Orange Order chaplain William Bingham after the murder of three
boys in Ballymoney, County Antrim.
The thunderous sounds of Lambeg drums being beaten on the main
road just 50 feet from the Quinn household reverberated through
the neat bungalow.
Report in the Irish News of Orangemen marching past the Quinn
brothers' wake house.
This past week has offered more than its fair share of outrageous
comments. But perhaps the most sickening came yesterday from DUP
leader Ian Paisley. Deflecting criticism of the Orange Order
after the deaths of three young children, he told an interviewer
on ITN that the IRA had committed ``far worse murders'' during its
30-year campaign than those in Ballymoney.
Editorial in the Irish News. Tuesday 14 July.
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