Deireann Eoghan Ó Néill: “Ba é an t-ionsaí ar Jim Gray i mBéal Feirste Thoir, an tseachtain seo caite, an chéad ionsaí ar Bhriogáidire de chuid an UDA ó cuireadh struchtúr na mBriogáidirí ar bun ag deireadh na 1970í agus is cinnte go n-imreoidh an UDA díoltas fola ar an LVF i ngeall ar an iarracht maraithe sin. Fuair an UDA réidh le ceannaire aonair ar an eagras i 1979 nuair a ruaig siad Andy Tyrie agus shocraigh ar struchtúr …
I mbun an abhair, maígheann Robert McMillan; “Tá an bharúil ag scaipeadh fríd Rialtas na hÉireann agus Rialtas na Breataine féin nach fiú Trimble a shábháil. Ní raibh sé ábalta barúlacha a mhúnlú i dtreo a pholasaithe féin agus chaill sé an cath ina pháirtí féin.” Slugger O'TooleA general account used for the daily threads and other things.
The Belfast Telegraph letters page has long been colonised by Unionist correspondents who feel bitterly let down that Sinn Fein were ever let into government. Yesterday however, several pro-Agreement or even ambivalent voices, for the most part took the floor. However the tone seems unrelentingly dark. Wes Holmes suggests that there is a vicious circle at work within Unionism, that it seems helpless to get out of: “The strategy [behind the UUC’s decision], undoubtedly, is to save the party from …
David McKittrick looks darkly at the future ahead. He opens by suggesting that the recent motion passed at the UUC has: “…no obvious wriggle room, it commits Trimble and his Unionist ministers to resigning immediately from the power-sharing executive unless the IRA not only disarms but actually disbands by January. It also demands a halt to policing reforms.” He believes this is the result of deliberate strategising on the part of anti camp: “No one believes the IRA could or …
Brian Kennaway, former convenor of the Orange Order’s education committee spoke to the annual gathering of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. Whilst suggesting that the two organsations had much in common, he also dealt with the obvious differences: “Tolerance does not mean the acceptance of the other person’s point of view, but the acceptance and acknowledgement that he has a right to hold that point of view.” Slugger O'TooleA general account used for the daily threads and other things.
