18 Quotes by Mitchel McLaughlin

The question is whether they can be sorted out in time for the talks deadline itself, but yes, I believe they can be sorted out.

There are a number of differing views and there is no agreement at all at the moment to report.

Both are now mapping out a strategy for the destruction of the executive and the collapse of the Assembly.

Even at this late stage we remain focused and engaged on these negotiations and will continue to seek to secure (our) objectives.

The unprovoked attack on Denis Bradley cannot under any circumstance be defended politically or otherwise as anything other than a vicious assault on a man who had taken his son to watch a football match.

confidence and generosity in response from our opponents.

taking enormous risks with all of our expectations for a peaceful and democratic future.

The two governments keep pressing Sinn Fein for things which we simply cannot deliver,

In my view this move by the IRA rekindles all the hope and expectation that was created at the time of the Good Friday Agreement.