Quotes about belfast (16 Quotes)




    It would have been much more difficult 10 years ago when there was a feeling somebody here was to blame. But Titanic was the most advanced ship of the time and there was nothing wrong with it when it left Belfast. When you think about the cost of creating a brand name, this is something everybody has heard of.

    There will be no football played in the country on Saturday as the eyes of the sporting community throughout the world focus on the funeral of George Best, taking place in Belfast.

    I really do think over the last 10 years there's been a real shift away from being slightly uneasy about what happened to the ship. I think people feel the time is right to celebrate the fact the ship was built in Belfast.




    It's not just Catholic versus Protestant any more. I read somewhere that in any construction site in Belfast, they have protection rackets. And you have to clear your trucking with the IRA, just like the Mafia here.


    The fact that George Bush has come to Belfast to meet Tony Blair in this location ... is in a sense a mark of respect for Tony Blair, an attempt to show outside world -- because George Bush doesn't voyage outside the United States all that easily -- it's a sign that he takes him seriously and listens to his advice. It gives him some sort of political payback,

    We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.


    He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.






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