What they said

After Enniskillen: Bomb brought back the horror of Remembrance Day slaughter in 1987

"What a terrible way to start married life." The groom's cousin, Eamonn Turbett, after the wedding reception of two nurses, Thadeus Turbett and Martina McManus, was ended by the bomb that blew up the Enniskillen Killyhevlin Hotel.

"When you see [DUP leader] Mr Paisley and others saying that they are winners this week that makes me very fearful because, if we're going to sort out the problem in Northern Ireland, there can be no winners and no losers."

Dick Spring, Irish Foreign Minister

Sadly, I have to say that I lay the blame fairly and squarely on the British Government. I regret to have to say that, but it is the truth." Cardinal Cahal Daly, Primate of All Ireland.

"There's only so much that one can argue, and the argument about the maintenance of the moral high ground for loyalism, I'm afraid, is wearing somewhat thin." David Ervine, of the Progressive Unionists.

"I do hope they will keep their ceasefire in being and with all the conviction I can muster I would ask them to do so. The consequences of not doing so would be to return us all to the hell whence we came." Sir Hugh Annesley, head of the RUC.

"The forum was supposed to be there to build understanding and build reconciliation. It wasn't doing that. It's doing quite the opposite." SDLP leader John Hume.

"We have a situation of total lawlessness here." Sinn Fein's chairman, Mitchel McLaughlin.