Republican News · Thursday 27 June 2002

Dúirt Siad

A government's first duty is the protection of its citizens, yet senior figures in the British administration here conspired to have innocent people murdered and protected the murderers. That's why there won't be a proper inquiry.

Brian Feeney on the Stevens report, The Irish News, Wednesday 26 June

The can of worms has well and truly opened and they may find it more difficult, if not impossible, to put the cap back on this time.

Sinn Féin vice-president Pat Doherty on the Stevens report, The Irish Times, Wednesday 26 June

For those who are not unionists, and who see that the aggression which is ongoing in the north at the moment is emanating largely from loyalists, it is easy to deplore thugs in masks hurling blast bombs into the homes of Catholics isolated in Protestant areas. However, it is far more important to deplore the refusal of "respectable" unionism to take control of its angry rabble, led on the ground by loyalist paramilitaries. Instead, Trimble joins the DUP in colluding with the lie that the threat to peace comes from Gerry Adams.

Susan McKay in The Sunday Tribune, 23 June

The line being peddled is that all of Europe is urging us to accept the treaty. Unfortunately, no one else in Europe has a vote. And the polls suggest that if they had, they'd throw it out.

Gene Kerrigan on the new Nice treaty referendum, The Sunday Independent, 23 June

There is no hiding place any more.

Frank Daly, chairman of the Revenue Commisioners, issuing a warning to Ansbacher account holders, The Irish Independent, Wednesday 26 June

It's hugely ironic that measures which are designed to help and protect refugees take an extraordinary amount of time to be implemented while at the same time European measures to crack down on refugees are immediately set in place.

James Stapelton, policy officer for the Irish Refugee Council, The Irish Examiner, Wednesday 26 June

Along the 150-mile long 2.5-mile wide strip of demilitarised zone which sunders North Korea from South Korea the South Koreans are blaring broadcasts of their own matches. "We are broadcasting the World Cup matches as part of our psychological warfare against the North," says Major Yoon Won-shik, spokesman at the office of South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff. "There has been no detectable reaction from the northern side."

Tom Humphries, The Irish Times, Monday 24 June. Who says sport and politics don't mix?