Gerry Carroll said:
"West Belfast is turning out tonight to tell the people of the Garvaghy Road they are not standing alone. Residents have held firm for nearly a week now, in torrential rain and through the night, and they have done it with remarkable dignity.”
"What has stopped this march was people standing together. West Belfast knows that lesson well. Families here spent decades being told their rights were negotiable. What they won, they won by refusing to be worn down.”
"Nobody wants to go back to the days of sectarian violence and murder. But peace will not be delivered by Orangemen marching down roads where they're clearly not wanted.”
"Working class people in every community here are on the same housing lists, the same hospital waiting lists and facing the same bills. We have far more in common than those stoking division would like us to notice.”
"I'm calling on people from west Belfast - and right across the city - to come out tonight and show their support."