Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)

If anyone, in jail or out of jail, thinks I will re-ignite some new torch of Irish republicanism or freedom, he is very wrong indeed. If people think they can bully the Irish Government into backing down or treating them as anything other than what they are — a group of people in pursuit of the impossible through grotesque means — or that they can influence me through protests and so on, they are very much mistaken.