It is a green light to members of the British crown
forces that they can kill Irish civilians with
impunity. The decision is in keeping with the reality
that the British legal and political establishment has
protected and provided legal cover for its killers over
the past 30 years.
Gerry Adams after the announcement of a retrial for
British Paratrooper Lee Clegg for the murder of West
Belfast teenager Karen Reilly.
To get an idea of the contempt with which Irish victims
of British military violence are viewed one need only
remember the scene in the Parachute regiment's
barracks.
Irish News editorial on the release of Lee Clegg, and
the mural in an officer's mess glorifying the killings
of Karen Reilly.
Get behind the leadership; stay behind the leadership
of the Republican Movement and demonstrate that we as
republicans are prepared to be sensible, to be flexible
and to be supportive of any agreement which brings
peace to our island that is consistent with the
republican analysis.
Sinn Féin Chairperson Mitchel McLaughlin. Thursday 26
February.
Heigh ho, heigh ho, it's off to work we go.
Scabbing Ryanair workers' taunts to striking workers
from the company's upper windows at Dublin Airport
during a support march for the striking workers by
trade unionists last Friday.
I value the Union.
Mo Mowlam in an interview with the Irish Times.
Saturday 28 February.
If Bertie Ahern seeks to redefine the Irish nation as
anything other than at least the island of Ireland,
then he faces big trouble on several fronts. It's not
just Sinn Féin and the republican family that will hit
the roof.
Damien Kiberd, Sunday Business Post. 1 March.
The workers don't count. In fact the great examples are
the banks, who maximise their profits by the hour,
while minimising their staff - and their services. Try
cashing your pay cheque, if you have one, at a bank in
Ballymun.
Tim Pat Coogan on the Ryanair dispute, Ireland On
Sunday. 1 March
The state has paid out tens of millions of pounds to
fund tribunals into political scandals but, despite
public outrage and intense media scrutiny, the hearings
have failed to result in a single prosecution.
Kevin McDermott writing in Ireland On Sunday on `The
Land of the Tribunal'. 28 February.
It is clear that the rights of Irish nationalists in
the North are not safe under any kind of British
jurisdiction... It is up to the Dublin government to
work together with Sinn Féin and the SDLP to bring
about radically new political institutions which are
broadly acceptable to northern nationalists and which
in effect means the end of partition.
Fr Joe McVeigh writing in the Irish News. Monday 2
March.
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