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Sat 03 Mar 2007Quote unquoteWhat they said"We are not any longer going to be pushed around as if we were some sort of poor children needing help. We're just as good as any Welshman or any South African and we are entitled to have freedom. Our forefathers fought for it, our fathers fought for it, we have fought for it, and we're going to have our birthright . . . We'll not talk to Sinn Féin until they talk to the [ British] government and forswear their alliance with terror."