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educated by the Christian Brothers, who were a bunch of brutal, mangled
men praying to Jesus with one hand and beating the crap out of you with
the other. ”
Actor Pierce Brosnan in Esquire.
“I like to think that I’m still viewed as an international actor, an
actor who comes from Ireland rather than an Irish actor.”
Liam Neeson in an interview with The Irish Times.
“I had the distinct impression that this was a case of some soldiers
realizing this was an opportunity to fire their weapon and they didn’t want
to miss the chance.”
An anonymous former paratrooper, identified as Soldier 027, in testimony
at the Saville inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings, in Derry, ‘72.
“We are getting a rash of American golf clubs in Ireland and it’s changing
the game here. American golf courses are spreading across the country like
weeds on Lough Derg.”
Martyn Turner writing in The Irish Times on American designed golf courses.
It is, he says “golf played on greens that are built to stop a ball like
a Harrier jump jet and the bunkers aren’t hazards but enhancements.”
“This decision shows above all that as a nation we want to welcome the
peoples of the applicant countries into the Union with open hearts as well
as open minds.”
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern on Ireland’s Nice Treaty Referendum result.
“We’ve taken our time to see that it’s done right.”
Sean O’Keefe on the Atlantis blast-off [after a four-month suspension]
carrying a 28,776-pound girder that will be used to expand the International
Space Station.
“I got a 20-year-old son, and he’s doing great now, but he’s been kind
of a hard dog to keep under the porch at times, kind of like I was at 20.
Also, I get naturally suspicious when politicians start agreeing with each
other as much as they were following Sept. 11. It just occurred to me that
we were going to get this kid [John Walker] because we couldn’t come up
with a body that we could say was Osama bin Laden.”
Steve Earle on his song “John Walker’s Blues.”
“[The only agenda] which is served by seeking to expel people from the
institution is the Paisleyite agenda. And I say that not to demonize Ian
Paisley, because at least he is honest, he doesn’t like Catholics, he doesn’t
like uppity Catholics.”
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams on the suspension of the Northern Ireland
Assembly, and the Unionist wish to expel Sinn Féin from the power-sharing
executive.
"To succeed in our global war against al Qaeda and terrorism, the United
States depends on military, law enforcement and intelligence support from
many other nations . . . It is far from clear that these essential relationships
will be able to survive the strain of a war with Iraq.”
Senator Edward Kennedy outlining his reasons for opposing war with Iraq.
“Tonight I can drink a glass of Guinness and sing: I love you like Ireland.”
Leszek Miller, Prime Minister of Poland, referring to the Irish stout
and a popular Polish ballad, following the announcement of the Irish “Yes”
vote on the “Nice Treaty” to allow 10 more countries to join the European
Union by 2004.
“We, the politicians of Northern Ireland, need to sit down and talk about
where we made mistakes. If we don’t talk we are just living out the simplistic
conditioning of our upbringing. . . . I am fed up with all this talk of
doom and gloom. We need to be politicians and work out the problems ourselves
now.”
Progressive Unionist Party leader David Ervine in a conversation with
Mary Dundon printed in the Irish Examiner.
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