There is a hurt out there which needs recognition. I feel so
passionate about this because I meet them every day and there is
no one saying to them about what happened to your son or your
daughter, your husband or your mother.
Gerry Adams last week on the hurt felt by victims of state
violence over the past 30 years.
We took 56% of the unionist vote. The yes campaigners spent £3m
to buy people's votes. they bribed and bullied, corrupted, tried
dirty tricks and got nowhere.
Ian Paisley after the referenda results were announced.
The reasons why we [Gerry Adams and David Trimble] have to have
these apartheid interviews on television is because Mr Trimble
will not come and sit down and talk to me.
Gerry Adams.
So he comes on the telly and before the words are out of his
mouth we are laughing and bellowing in imitation. We hear
ourselves, not him. If we had listened more down the years, we
might have laughed less. This is not a funny man.
Colm Kilcoyne writing in the Sunday Tribune on Ian Paisley.
I think in many ways they have been ahead of the politicians and
have taken a leap of faith to move the situation forward - I
think we have to deliver on that.
Gerry Adams after the result.
It is essential in the coming weeks for the nationalist parties
to work toogether.
Martin McGuinness.
We don't have guns, we are armed only with our ideas, we are
armed only with our analysis and we are armed only with whatever
mandate we will receive.
Gerry Adams at a press conference in Belfast on Sunday.
What they [No campaigners] are saying, in effect, is that the
votes of nationalists, the Women's Coalition, etc, don't count.
The only real vote is the one recorded by the unionists. That is
the philosophy of the Ku Klux Klan.
Tim Pat Coogan in Ireland On Sunday. 24 May.
When I was young, I joined the GAA `cos it was probably one of
the only outlets where I could say I'm Irish. It made me proud to
walk home with my hurling stick, to wear the Ardoyne jersey. I
mean how can an RUC man or British soldier stand beside me under
an Irish flag and say, `Hey, I'm proud to be Irish'? He can't.
Ardoyne Kickhams member on Rule 21. Irish Independent, Monday 25
May.
The border is vanishing
Nuala O'Faoláin in the Irish Times. Monday 25 May.
It is not an issue [decommissioning]. The issue is the document
that we voted on on Friday. Let's not be pursuing dead-end
issues.
Sinn Féin Vice President Pat Doherty. Monday 25 May.
It was a surprisingly large anti-EU vote considering the two
previous referenda here on European Economic and Monetary Union
were carried easily by majorities of over 2-1. That comfort
factor has been halved.
Ireland On Sunday Political Correspondent Ken Whelan on the
results of the Amsterdam Treaty referendam.
RUC canteen culture is still stubbornly male-dominated,
Protestant, British and unionist and there remains a hardcore
allegiance to values and practices that compromise the concept of
an even-handed impartial police service.
Chris Ryder, a former member of the Police Authority in the Irish
Times. Saturday 23 May.
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