Mary Lou McDonald

“There will be an enormous sense of relief within the community this evening.”

The British Secretary of State now updates his Twitter account more regularly than the residents, who he hasn’t spoken to since last Thursday.

He should have acted on day one and he should act now.

Less than two weeks to Budget day, what will Government do to get costs under control?

“The mood here has been peaceful. It has been united and orderly. This is a dignified and united community and they are absolutely determined that they and we will not be drawn back into the past.”

We have spent all night here, all night talking to people, listening to people, seeking to reassure people that actually this can be resolved, and it must be.

This is madness. This, in fact, is primitive treatment of any community in the year 2026. It is intolerable, and it will not be tolerated.

The decision is utterly reckless.

No prime minister has the right to “high-handedly” remove the provision for a unity referendum from the Good Friday Agreement.

Burying his head in the sand is not a plan, is not a strategy, is not wise, and is not acceptable to us.

The future of Ireland is for the people of this island to decide, and for the people of this island alone.

This matter cannot be allowed to drift through further administrative delay.

Sufferers of Friedreich's Ataxia cannot wait any longer

Time [was] of the essence

It cannot be missed," she said. "It must be grasped.

Urgent steps must now be taken to engage with survivors and to appoint a mediator without further delay. This process should now be expedited to ensure full justice and full redress.

You were up against it all, and the State which should have protected you from this monster, instead let you down catastrophically.

The question is not whether we can afford reunification. It is whether we can afford partition.

Without that we are going to continue with the nightmare that we are seeing on our streets, and just to remind ourselves people have been badly injured and worse.

A ban is all well and good but it means nothing if it's not enforced, and all of the evidence across our communities is that the law and regulations are not enforced.

What's required is enforcement, the Government haven't said anything or certainly haven't made the commitments that we need in respect of garda resources and garda training.

There has been nothing rushed, hasty or pre-emptive about this process. Over the last three decades, we had big challenges, disagreements, political confrontations, we have had high and lows - of that there is no doubt. However, the peace…

It was never given to the survivors, so the investigation, the criminal case, and the survivors' civil cases were conducted without this key piece of evidence.

The survivors walked a long road that you should never have had to walk.