Republican News · Thursday 11 March 1999

[An Phoblacht]

The problem is that Trimble's backbenchers have stood up in this assembly and consistently dug the hole deeper. It is they indeed who need to move to make this survive. My assessment is - and I would like to be wrong - the Provos cannot deliver, or Sinn Féin cannot deliver the Provo weapons as has been demanded.

PUP chief negotiator David Ervine last week.

 

March 10 is the promised date and we expect that the British government will meet its commitment. David Trimble cannot be allowed to continuously enforce a veto on progress by his unrealistic demands.

Sinn Féin's Alex Maskey. Irish News, Thursday 4 March.

 

I've been on delegations to RUC headquarters and been treated with the utmost courtesy, given tea and biscuits and treated like a lady. Then I've gone back to my own area and the policeman on the beat has addressed me a Fenian slut.

Ardoyne on the RUC, women quoted in Mary Hollland's column in last Thursday's Irish Times.

 

I was getting that many documents that I didn't know where to put them.

Former UDA commander Bobby Philpot on information supplied to him by the British crown forces on the programme Loyalists. Sunday 7 March.

 

I understand that many respectable people in New York have voiced their opposition to this, including members of Congress. The RUC should not be afforded a mantle of respectability or acceptability in the US.

Alex Maskey on the boxing match between the New York police and the RUC, which was thrown into doubt over a venue.

 

They are trying to force the IRA back to war in the misguided belief that a military victory over that group is still possible.

Gerry Adams quoted in the New York-based Irish Voice.

 

But as far as we are concerned it dosen't matter if you are a leading republican or not. Is it just a Catholic they are after?

Greencastle community workers after `dissident' loyalists issued death threats against Catholic taxis in North Belfast. Irish News Monday 8 March.

 

Reference to these groups as dissidents are designed to minimise the threat they pose. It is common knowledge in the area that the UDA is behind the orchestration of this campaign of intimidation.

Sinn Féin's Gerry Kelly on the threats.

 

The idea that Lord Denning would be a role model for the modern judiciary should be an appalling vista for everyone interested in genuine human rights.

Spokeman for the Pat Finucane Centre on the Mirror's comments on controversial British judge Denning, who died\ last week.

 

The context and the seriousness of the situation should not be underestimated. If we reduce this to a game, the only ones who can win are the rejectionists and those who don't want the agreement to work.

Gerry Adams on the present inpasse. Irish News, Tuesday 9 March.

 


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