Wednesday, October 16, 2002

Tell us the war is over! Danny Morrison Perhaps now, the Ulster Unionists will realise the enormity of the situation they have brought about. Their objective was to force Tony Blair to move an exclusion notice in the Assembly against Sinn Fein and then during the subsequent debate hope that the SDLP would vote with them, bringing back something reminiscent of majority rule and turning the Northern Assembly into the old Stormont. [Danny Morrison] Comments: Google It! 6:23:02 AM

Sinn Fein increases its strength in Dail Maureen Gallagher & Andy Johnston The general election in Ireland has put Fianna Fail back as the dominant party in the next government. They gained around 43% of the vote and are halfway through negotiations to form a coalition with their preferred partners, the PD's. [Fourthwrite] Comments: Google It! 6:20:40 AM

Adair Dumped! What Next? The news of tension between the UDA and LVF could spell danger for nationalists Johnny Adair and John White have been dumped out of the UDA. Should Republicans celebrate this fall from grace of someof the leading hate figures within the loyalist community or should caution be exercised in light of past history? [The Starry Plough] Comments: Google It! 6:15:41 AM

Nationalists in constant terror and state of siege since Agreement Speakers at the annual eve-of-All-Ireland rally organised by Republican Sinn Féin in Dublin city centre on September 21 last outlined the situation of nationalists in the Six Counties as one of "constant terror and state of siege" since the signing of the Stormont Agreement. Those who had once defended them were described as being "in bed with the enemy". [Saoirse] Comments: Google It! 6:11:07 AM

How Clever Was Adams? Henry Patterson Although Gerry Adams is taking legal advice on claims by Ed Moloney that he was deeply implicated in the killing and 'disappearing' of Jean McConville and others accused of betraying IRA operations to the British, Moloney's portrayal of Adams' role in the peace process is by far the most fulsome that has been produced so far. On one of his media appearances to promote the book the author referred to Adams' 'strategic genius' and advised Unionists to reassess their instinctively hostile attitude to the man who is portrayed as having worked out the basic framework of the deal signed on Good Friday 1998 as early as 1982. In the preface as well as suggesting that Adams should have shared the Nobel prize along with John Hume and David Trimble, he describes Adams as a figure of comparable historical significance as Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera. [The Blanket] Comments: Google It! 6:08:40 AM

Special Branch tried to recruit Fermanagh man The RUC/PSNI tried to pressurise a young Newtownbutler man into acting as an informer, according to Sinn Féin councillor Thomas O'Reilly. [AP/RN] Comments: Google It! 6:05:12 AM

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