How can David Trimble say he is observing the spirit of the
agreement when he is refusing to talk to elected representatives?
Garvaghy Road Councillor Breandán Mac Cionnaith. Friday 12 June.
We simply don't trust the British side, especially the Ministry
of Defence, to provide the inquiry with all the evidence. They
will have the massive resources of the British civil service. We
must have an equally strong legal team. History will not forgive
us if we allowed another disaster like Widgery.
Source close to Bloody Sunday's victims' families on concerns
over the independence of the public judicial inquiry. Ireland On
Sunday, 14 June.
The memo in effect claimed that [Edward] Kennedy had approved
these two American members of the new police commission. Kennedy,
however, pointedly offered no opinion on Kathleen O'Toole, the
Boston police official and hand-picked British choice for the
commission, who has come under intense Irish American scrutiny.
There is a strongly held belief in some quarters that the British
were trying to pass off the Irish American they had cultivated as
a sop to the nationalist side.
Niall O'Dowd on the memo leaked from the NIO last week. Ireland
On Sunday, 14 June.
The British government response to the latest damaging leak was
to send in the RUC to investigate, which, given the fact that the
leaker's intent is to preserve the current power and culture of
the RUC, is like sending in the clowns to investigate wrongdoing
in the circus.
Niall O'Dowd again.
We are in business to make profit and as such we should not be
afraid to ``load'' interest rates if necessary and not work
strictly within the matrix if the individual proposition warrants
a higher rate.
NIB chief executive Jim Lacey in a confidential guideline urging
managers not to be afraid of loading interest onto loans. Sunday
Tribune, 14 June.
Since the Scottish and Welsh referendums, one can detect a
smouldering sense of resentment among right-wing English
nationalists at the temerity of these peripheral creatures,
particularly the Scots, in demanding their own parliament. A
recent opinion poll in which 52% of the respondents said they
would vote for an independent Scotland has provoked much
spluttering along familiar lines. What on earth can the world be
coming to? Even if God is still in his heaven, is there a danger
that he may no longer be draped in the Union Jack?
Professor Joe Lee. Sunday Tridune, 14 June.
They know [unionists who voted Yes] there is an honourable place
for unionism in the new Ireland. Tribal unionism - the No camp -
are against change, but they have to face up to the fact that
change is coming.
Gerry Adams. Sunday 14 June.
This crap about Clinton and reputed bedroom hopping - that's not
the important thing. To me, his signing of a bill, a Democratic
president signing a bill put out by the Troglodytes, by the
Republic's right-wing - the Welfare Reform Bill it's called - in
which they tear out the safety net and endanger the most
vulnerable, the children of the poor - that's obscene; that is
profane; that is dirty.
American interviewer Studs Terkel on Bill Clinton. The Guardian,
Monday 15 June.
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