As the name suggests the Felons is an association for
ex-prisoners who hold membership and office simply by virtue of
being former political prisoners. How can it be otherwise? It is
all harassment and it is continuous and ongoing. We are simply
being victimised.
Felons' Chairman Liam Shannon on the ongoing RUC harassment of
the club under laws which forbid former prisoners from serving on
the club's committee.
However, as this newspaper and other voices have repeatedly said,
particular doubts about the credibilty of the LVF are still
firmly in place.
Editorial on the LVF. Irish News, Thursday 19 November.
The overwhelming majority of the Irish people have ratified the
agreement. This includes the formation of the executive, the
all-Ireland bodies and indeed the provisions to establish a new
acceptable policing service.
Mitchel McLaughlin after UUP warnings on the collapse of the
Agreement.
So they would fall into the trap of having to go back on to the
streets to get black market methadone or go back on heroin.
Independent TD Tony Gregory at a Leinster House Committee meeting
on prisoners who have received drug treatment in jail coming out
to no treatment.
The Good Friday Agreement is a unique chance for all of us on
this island, the best chance we will see in our lifetime. It is
our determination to make it work, and to see the will of the
people implemented, on an inclusive basis.
Bertie Ahern at last week's Fianna Fáil Ard Fheis.
Unionists are British and we intend to remain British... We have
an impartial police force in Northern Ireland. What we need is
for the nationalist parties to support the RUC and tell their
people to join up.
UUP MP Willie Thompson in response to Bertie Ahern's Ard Fheis
comments.
I completely and utterly condemn this, especially as it was the
marines - those who shot Fergal Caraher. These people sitting in
a pub on a Sunday afternoon - married couples and young men with
their girlfriends. One of the men was very close to being killed.
This is a sad state of affairs when we have a ceasefire.
Sinn Féin's Jim McAllister after local men were attacked by crown
forces in Crossmaglen last Sunday afternoon.
This Saturday will see yet another pro-Drumcree demonstration
take place from Portadown town centre out to Drumcree. The Grand
Lodge of Ireland has also applied for a major demonstration at
Drumcree on 19 December. These ongoing demonstrations are clearly
designed to intimidate the local nationalist population.
Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition statement after the Orange
Order met with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Downing
Street.
I am not going to forget about all those years in jail and
obviously as a republican I want to see a united Ireland. It is
still the goal... the way forward is through the present process.
Recently released Republican POW Bernard Fox in an interview with
the Irish News. Tuesday 24 November.
A question about his `Northern Irish Presbyterian' background is
grammatically corrected. ``I'm a Northern Ireland Presbyterian, or
a Presbyterian from Northern Ireland, I'm not Northern Irish.''
David Trimble corrects the editor of Fortnight magazine, John
O'Farrell.
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