“It is essential to enter into official opposition …

“It is essential to enter into official opposition at Stormont to ensure that existing parliamentary machinery operates for the common good… Our fidelity to the united Ireland ideal remains unaltered by this decision.”

—Nationalist Party, as Northern Ireland anti-partition party, in statement ending policy of non-cooperation in the Northern Ireland Parliament, 2/2/1965. The Irish Times, 3/2/1965.

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