Daily life in Fatima Mansions is a feat of endurance... alongside
the simmering despair at the level of degradation into which the
estate has fallen there is a strong sense of an enduring social
fabric and strong social networks which one would be hard-pressed
to find on many private suburban extates.
Report by Dr Mary Corcoran on life in a Dublin city centre flats
complex ravaged by poverty and drugs. Irish Times, Thursday 24
September.
It's unfortunate that Catholic businesses have been damaged...
When the parade will go down the hill that will solve the
problem.
Portadown Orangeman Davy Jones on attacks on Catholic businesses
last week.
I have honoured every commitment [of the Agreement] but it is not
in our gift to deliver decommissioning.
Gerry Adams speaking last week.
I have made it clear to the two governments, I have made it clear
to Mr Trimble and everyone else that there must be a shadow
executive, that I will not break the Agreement by agreeing to a
contrived situation to cover up the fact that the shadow
executive has not yet been formed.
Séamus Mallon
Séamus Mallon is obviously dealing with the reality that we need
to see as a matter of urgency the full implementation of the Good
Friday Agreement.
Martin McGuinness on Mallon's statement.
I look around this hall and I know we shall be free.
SNP leader Alex Salmond at the party's annual conference in
Inverness, Scotland.
Cases like the Nicky Kelly case highlighted the dangers of
conferring wide-ranging powers on the police without the
corresponding safeguards. The experience of Irish suspects in
Britain during the same period still serves as a powerful
reminder of the risks inherent in excessive police powers.
Harry McGee writing in the Sunday Tribune on previous
miscarriages of justices brought about by repressive state
legislation.
Deep in the nationalist and republican psyche there's a parallel
fear that given the opportunity loyalists and unionists with
their handguns, shotguns and .22 rifles in co-operation with the
RUC and Royal Irish Regiment will turn on them, when most
vulnerable. For many that will be when the IRA has handed over
all its weapons... At the moment there are 138,727 legally-held
firearms in the North... ``They can't all be for shooting
rabbits,'' as one Sinn Féin official said.
Gerry Moriarty writing on decommissioning in the Irish Times.
Monday 28 September.
Yet another Saturday in Portadown has been disrupted by
protestors demanding that the Orange Order march banned from the
Garvaghy Road be allowed to march... The real nonsense of the
situation is that the Orange Order and its supporters are slowly
bringing Portadown to its knees by insisting they should be
allowed to march where they are not wanted.
Editorial in the Irish News. Monday 28 September.
The aim of democratic Irish opinion, democratic opinion in
Britain and internationally must seek a change in British policy
from one of upholding the Union to one of ending the Union.
Gerry Adams speaking at the British Labour Party Conference.
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