Hugh Orde Quotations

We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning. It's a tribute to the way they responded and it's a tribute to their tactics.

It is important to remember that this was not across the province. It was isolated. Most of Northern Ireland got on with its life untroubled by these very serious issues,

Officers were shot at last night. We are very lucky we do not have dead officers this morning.

I would not have made that statement without having spent a great deal of time speaking to my senior detectives and my senior analysts,

The Orange Order must bear substantial responsibility for this. They publicly called people on to the streets. I think if you do that, you cannot then abdicate responsibility,

On the basis of the investigative work we have done to date ... in my opinion the Provisional IRA were responsible for this crime,

attacked with missiles, petrol bombs, blast bombs, and pipe bombs. They have been shot at.