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Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Deputy Penrose has made that clear to me.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I explained in Irish why I did not do so.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We will get them out of office and do it fairly soon.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: There is also the Cork Airport issue.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is the start of an election campaign.

Seanad: Order of Business. (6 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Israel will not denounce violence either.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It would be churlish not to acknowledge the progress that has been made. However, I hope that those who now recognise that the Army of this State is Óglaigh na hÉireann will sometime soon recognise that they do not own the word "republican" either. A prominent member of Sinn Féin said he could not be at the GPO because he had made an arrangement with republicans in Cork. There are two...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Let us not give away language.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: It is the only word I would dispute with our friends from the DUP — their willingness to allow one party to take over that word. It is time we took it back from them. I would be reluctant to cause the slightest bit of rancour about the 1916 commemorations, even though I recorded a slightly dissenting view in one of the newspapers recently. Like others, I have received an invitation to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Some 90 years on we could offer the mass for everybody who died, not just those who took a particular view. It is long enough behind us now to recognise that civilians were also killed, who did not think they were dying for Ireland at the time, in addition to policemen and British soldiers. A mass for those who died in 1916 would be a small gesture in the direction of that word...

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was half expecting to see that somehow or other James Connolly had founded Fianna Fáil, given that party's inclusiveness.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Perhaps one of my colleagues on the Government benches will draw the Taoiseach's attention to what I am sure was an accidental omission, or perhaps the Labour Party just cannot get on the Taoiseach's website.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I am seeking a debate on the prohibition of religious advertising on the Irish broadcast media. It seems to me that every crackpot superstition can be advertised, including tarot cards or psychics live. Recently, I heard one of the Sunday newspapers advertising somebody who was going to tell us all about angels in two parts. I do not know whether the angels were in two parts or the article....

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: I was asked for my boarding pass, that was all.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: We are very inclusive.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Sometimes we look it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: Someone should tell that to the European Union.

Seanad: Middle East Peace Process: Statements. (26 Apr 2006)

Brendan Ryan: My party and its spokesperson on foreign affairs believe that the decision taken by the Foreign Ministers of the European Union at the recent Council meeting ranks among the most negative decisions in the history of the EU's relationship with the Middle East. I was depressed, annoyed and angry, and remain so, at this capacity to lecture victims of oppression about the need to reject violence,...