I treat the whole thing as a farce. This report will be treated like all the rest. Even if it was implemented in full, I don't think it would make any difference. Removing their badges and changing the name won't make any difference.
Hugh Jordan, whose son Volunteer Pearse Jordan was murdered by the RUC in 1992, commenting on the Patten Report, Ireland On Sunday, 26 September
I welcome support from anybody but I will not be used. I am just fed up having to explain Mr Trimble's actions to every Tom, Dick or Harry.
Michelle Williamson, who is taking a case against Mo Mowlan's decision that the IRA ceasefire is intact, Tuesday 22 September
The question must also be asked if the allegations of criminal activity made yesterday were first reported to Gardaí. With so many of the recent financial scandals, it seems that instead of calling in the Gardaí, a tribunal is established, an investigator appointed, or the whole thing is turned over to the inquiries of some political committee.
Editorial in last week's Examiner on the string of financial scandals hitting the 26-County state
Ultimately, I believe that you, David, will have more influence on armed groups than Gerry Adams or I, because you have to show that you have changed as well. You have to show that we are moving forward to a new dispensation and that this Agreement is going to be implemented and that provides the best hope of removing all of the guns, British and Irish, from Irish politics.
Martin McGuinness
One in five Irish children have TVs in their bedrooms. One in three Irish children live below the poverty line. This is Ireland of the 1990s, Ireland of the fat Celtic Tiger and its starving cubs. An anti-poverty mass rally will be held in Dublin on 20 October. How massed will it be?
Ireland On Sunday editorial, 26 September
Day after day, people are complaining about the epidemic of drugs in Sligo. Cocaine had been widely available for the past 18 months and we now believe that there are a small number of heroin abusers in the town.
Sinn Féin Alderman Seán MacManus, the Irish Times, Thursday 23 September
The Taoiseach's declaration of a toughening attitude to the nurses will inevitably be constrasted with the unconsionable and deliberate tax evasion by so many highly placed and influential pillars of the business community.
Editorial in the Examiner, Friday, 24 September
What we achieved, while imperfect, is immeasurably better than what our communities, including people in Britain, experienced over the past 30 years. Building on the Good Friday Agreement is the best chance we have to create a conflict-free society. We cannot allow the rejectionists to rob us of that chance.
Sinn Féin's Mitchel McLaughlin, speaking at a fringe meeting of the British Labour Party's Annual Conference in Bournemouth
Government insistence that legislation precludes naming the 120 people listed in the Ansbacher accounts may be technically correct, but it is unlikely to satisfy growing public demand to life the lid off this can of worms... We can be sure the best legal brains will be hired to put every conceivable obstacle in the path of the investigative process.
Editorial in the Examiner, Tuesday, 28 September
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