Republican News · Thursday 22 November 2001

It is a terrorist threat , it will make the area directly around Cumbria less safe by expanding Sellafield and it's also producing plutonium which is the main component of nuclear weapons.

- Stephen Tindale, executive director of Greenpeace UK, comments after a British court ruled in favour of the project to expand Sellafield, Irish Times, Friday 16 November.

Good news. Our customers have been very patient and we now want to get on with the job of manufacturing MOX fuel for them.

-BNFL on the same issue as before, Irish Times , Friday 16 November.

We don't want to be the kill joys here, but people will have to make up the time if they are going to watch the match today, Otherwise, we will all lose a considerable amount of money. People not turning up for work is not good enough.

- Pat Delaney, director of the Small Firms Association, talking about the economic consequences of the midday match in Tehran, Irish Examiner, Thursday 15 November.

There is an ingrained attitude toward the older worker. It's just an assumption that's made that you're old, so you're no good any more, Age discrimination exists. It's out there in society.

- Barney Calman, Irish Examiner Thursday 15 November.

There have been public meetings in my constituency this weekend over delays in school buildings programmes and I haven't been able to tell them anything positive.

- Cork FF TD, Irish Independent, Monday 19 November.

I like Aer Lingus. I like it because it is part of what we are, part of what we need out here on this island. I liked seeing it in Tehran the other night, just the reassuring symbolism of it. If the Brits can get derogations from Human Rights legislation, well, I won't be voting pro-Europe till our little community can give our money to our airline, So there.

- Tom Humphries, Irish Times Sports, Monday 19 November

More disturbing than the mindset of the extremists on the fringes of unionist society in Northern Ireland, is the fact that many of their views are close to mainstream, It was Paisley, whose views on the current political regime are shared by around half of Northern Irish protestants, who spoke of Drumcree as "a matter if life or death". He also said that "the entire pan nationalist front" backed the "beast of fascism, the IRA", and called the Good Friday Agreement "a prelude to genocide".

Three further Grand Protestant Rallies are planned; the final one is to be in Craigavon Civic Centre, close to both Portadown and Lurgan. The scheduled date is March 15: the anniversary of the murder of Rosemary Nelson.

Susan McKay, Guardian Weekend, Saturday 17 November