I've a driving licence from a government department and I've been on the electoral register for all of my adult life. But according to the passport office in Belfast I don't exist because my birth was never registered. Patrick Kane, from Strabane, Co Tyrone, who has been refused a passport on the grounds he doesn't exist.
We are bowing out gracefully. We did what we could. Our former members are active in other spheres like the policing board, the parades commission and the human rights commission. The political baton is there to be taken up by others.
Jane Morrice, a founder member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, which is to disband.
This type of situation happens all over the place. Why do people working in Africa eat better than the people they are looking after?
Fr Joseph O'Reilly, the provincial of the order of Rosminians, says that the quality of food provided to staff at St Joseph's Industrial School, Ferryhouse, Tipperary, had been higher than that given to children there.
We will be waiting in the long grass for them.
John Egan, president of the Garda Representative Association, appears to suggest the organisation would target vulnerable Government TDs in the next election as part of its campaign against the Garda reserve. The organisation later said it would not be proceeding with the plans.
I am not a puritan or a killjoy. I do not mind people playing poker if they want to, but if people are engaging in unlawful gaming they should not be allowed to operate a business.
Minister for Justice Michael McDowell rules out legalised casinos.
She was my mum and I loved her.
Kristopher Mulder welcomes the life sentence for his father Anton Mulder for the murder of his mother Colleen.
I don't know if I'm gifted with this crazy metabolism, but we do throw the biggest parties at my house. And then the next day I wake up and I go to class and I take my classes seriously.
Johnny Lechner, a student at the University of Wisconsin, who has become a minor celebrity in the US for taking 12 years to achieve his undergraduate degree. Lechner (29) now plans to study abroad.
My son was a great child. Everybody loved him, just the way I loved him. He got on with everybody. He had loads of Catholic friends and loads of Protestant friends.
Gina McIlveen, whose son Michael (15) was killed in a sectarian attack in Ballymena.
Before it opened far more beds were promised than were delivered.
Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin Most Rev John Neill believes services at Tallaght hospital have been allowed to erode since its opening.
An unworkable mess.
Impact trade union says the Government's decentralisation plans are proving a failure.
It is premature to speak of the end of the arms race. Moreover, it is going faster today. It is rising to a new technological level.
Russian president Vladimir Putin says Moscow's arms race with the US is not yet over.
The fact is that the people there are dangerous people and . . . one thing we don't want to do is release people now who might at some point in the future end up on the battlefield facing our troops.
Sean McCormack, a spokesman for the US state department, rejects calls for the closure of Guantánamo Bay.