Jeffrey Donaldson
Jeffrey Donaldson
Sir Jeffrey Mark Donaldson, PC, MP, is a Northern Irish politician and Member of Parliament for Lagan Valley representing the Democratic Unionist Party. He is best known for his opposition to Ulster Unionist Partyleader David Trimble during the Northern Ireland peace process, especially from 1998 to 2003. He is Northern Ireland's longest-serving current MP...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 December 1962
bears bomb carried certainly ira sanctioned work
If this bomb wasn't carried out by the IRA, it was certainly sanctioned by the IRA, because it bears all the hallmarks of the work of IRA terrorists.
adopted heard power reality strategy viable
I have not heard a viable alternative to what I have put forward, and the reality is that the (power sharing) strategy that we adopted in May has failed,
beginning clearly good ira lead process weapons whether
Clearly what we need to know from the IRA is whether this is the beginning of a process which will lead to the decommissioning of their weapons or whether this is as good as it gets,
level
I don't think we're going to get that level of transparency tomorrow, and I think that's most unfortunate.
confidence increase process public secrecy
In the past, decommissioning as a process has been shrouded in secrecy and if we are to increase public confidence in the process then we want it to be more transparent,