The voice quivered more than usual... But Ian Paisley's message
to the cream of Europe's leaders was depressingly familiar. It
was not surprising that Mr Paisley provided the only discordant
note during the hour long session at the European Parliament.
Report in the Irish Independent on Ian Paisley's address to the
European Parliamnent last week. Thursday 30 April.
We feel our communities have the inalienable right to live in
peace and free of threat and fear. We feel strongly that they
should not be beaten from the very areas occupied by them.
Letter supporting the residents of the Garvaghy Road from
Catholic priest in the Six Counties. Irish News, Friday 1 May.
A fundamental principle for republicans is whether we would
regard a referendum organised in the South by the Irish
government and one organised in the North by the British
government as being a valid expression of national
self-determination, the answer is very clear, no.
Mitchel McLaughlin on RTÉ's News at One. Thursday 30 April.
The important thing about the IRA statement in terms of the
referenda is that it didn't call upon people not to vote, it
didn't seek to influence what way people should vote.
Gerry Adams on the IRA's response to the Agreement. Irish Times,
Friday 1 May.
In our own situation it was in the peacekeeping process that the
whole resolution of our conflict kept being under threat of
coming unstuck because of police action; their reactions to
issues; their failure to react in particular ways; their
composition, general orientation, mentality, and way of doing
things. They were very much an integral part of the peace
process. Unless this issue here is given close attention too, the
whole thing could fall apart.
ANC representative Cyril Ramaphosa in an interview with the Irish
News. Saturday 4 May.
The time of loyalists in Armani suits carrying brief cases in
over. The time for loyalists in boiler suits carrying rifles is
beginning. your peace train has well and truly been de-railed,
Mo.
Editorial in LVF magazine, Ireland On Sunday, 3 May.
In the 1970s Roy Mason said that he was squeezing the IRA like a
tube of toothpaste, Margaret Thatcher said that the hunger
strikers were the IRA's last card. Seventeen years later where is
Roy Mason? Where is Margaret Thatcher?
Gerry Adams speaking at the hunger strike anniversary rally in
Belfast last Sunday.
Club members, however, will have four murdered members very much
on their minds, along with many grim times when they faced
loyalist fire, bullets, and bombs for their love of Gaelic
games... The club itself has been attacked 16 times (eight arson
attacks, five bombings, three shootings).
The reality of being involved in the GAA in the Six Counties,
this case being St Enda's in County Antrim. Ireland On Sunday, 3
May.
Without the IRA who fought the War of Independence, there would
not have been a Republic of Ireland today. Without the IRA, the
dynamic for change which now exists in Northern Ireland could not
have come about. Without an IRA ceasefire, the peace process
which has given hope to so many would be impossible.
Niall O'Dowd writing in the Irish Times. Monday 4 May.
First, they said Ronan died in a gun battle. Then they admitted
no shots were fired at them. This must be explained. We also
need to know why the road where the shooting took place was
closed for so long afterwards. These questions must be answered.
Statement from the partner of Ronan McLoughlin, shot dead in
County Wicklow by Gardaí last Friday.
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