I wish to unreservedly apologise to the person whom I injured and her family for this serious lapse of personal responsibility on my part.Fianna Fáil TD G.V. Wright who knocked down a pedestrian while over the drink-driving limit
They are wrong to be leading ordinary working people into a cul-de-sac of imprisonment in pursuit of a political objective.
David Begg, general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions, criticises anti-refuse-charge activists in Dublin
My wife speaks for herself and speaks as a mother protecting her child. She is entitled to do that.
Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, after his wife, Prof Niamh Brennan, said she would be reluctant to report a personal assault to the Garda for fear of leaks to journalists
Threats to expel or assassinate him are deeply misguided and dangerous and can only further delay efforts to achieve a settlement.
In an address to the UN General Assembly the Taoiseach warns against moves to depose Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
I just realised that I have a perfect part for you in Terminator 4.
Republican candidate in California's recall election, Arnold Schwarzenegger, during a televised debate with opponent Arianna Huffington, who accused him of chauvinism
In the distant future, one could perhaps imagine a new association of nations, composed of individual states of superior national quality, that could challenge the imminent overpowering of the world by the American union.
Extract from Hitler's second book, unearthed by a Jewish scholar and published for the first time this week.
It is the view of this court that the judgment was very wrong . . . and Amina Lawal is hereby discharged and acquitted.
Ibrahim Maiangwa, a judge in the upper Sharia court in northern Nigeria, which has acquitted the single mother who faced death by stoning for adultery.
Whether human rights mean the right of a young child to walk safely to school or the right of an entire nation to determine its own future, there are few who have done more in recent history to advance the cause than Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern.
The University of Connecticut president Philip Austin awards both leaders the Thomas J. Dodd prize in international justice and human rights for their role in the peace process
Many of those using chatrooms are young and interested in sex and going out. Unfortunately we know paedophiles have exploited this.
A Microsoft spokesman announces the company is closing unmonitored chat services
They are not married. They got a hunting licence. But they are still romantically involved.
A friend of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck after the pair were seen entering a county court office in Georgia holding hands
I want to see people, look them in the eye. All this sending e-mails from four yards away. Where's the communication gone? The whole art is the human touch.
Philip Green, the British entrepreneur, explains why he doesn't use a computer