Apologies for rusty gaeilge - I may not be 100% here but I don't think there is any reference to police or politicians.

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Is iad “ár muintir” atá sa ghriangraf seo! = This is "our people" in this photograph.

Seo caighdeán faoi dhó ar fad! = This is the second generation for sure!

Saoirse do Chaitlicigh i dTuairsceart Éireann agus daoirse dúinn go léir anseo i Méiriceá. = Freedom to the Catholics in the North of Ireland and slavery upon us all here in America.

Tá tuilleadh eolais ar fáil anseo. = There is more information here.

Funnily enough, this story appeared today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/nyregion/17ferrer.html?th

Translation not quite accurate. The picture is of a crowd of people (presumably US Democrats) outside the US Republican convention in NY last year.

The sentence "Ta caighdean faoi dho anseo." is translated as "There is a double standard here."

Definitely a dig at the NYPD.

To get the debate going, then I would say that actually much of what was said was correct. However the rhetoric went a bit too far for my (unionist) taste.

The RUC was not a normal police force. It was engaged in a 'struggle' with an armed insurgency group (to use the current parlance) so how could it have been ? The PSNI was born from the RUC and it will take some time before it too can become a 'normal' police force - whatever that may be - but one of the things that is preventing that happening is the continuing existence of armed interest groups within Northern Ireland.

*That* is what should have been addressed by the speech.

"Céibh 57" = Pier 57, former bus depot along the Hudson River used as a temporary prison for dissidents and even non-participating bystanders during the neocon/redneck Nine-Eleven Fest. Many prisoners suffered blisters and chemical burns as a result of sleeping on the paved ground. A court dismissed the charges against the prisoners and they plan to sue.