This Week They Said

The brigades of death are at your doors

The brigades of death are at your doors.A warning to the US and its allies, issued by the Abu Hafs Al-Masri group, which claimed responsibility for the Madrid bombings.

We are not going to live our lives or devise our policies on speculation on how al-Qaeda will seek to determine events.

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Cowen, defends opening Shannon Airport to the US military.

I accept now it wasn't Osama bin Laden but an innocent man who happened to have a long black beard.

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The French driver who jumped the lights in an attempt to run down a man he thought was Osama Bin Laden.

He is more like a leader would be in Europe. He doesn't look Texan.

Guillaume Parmentier, director of the French Centre in the United States on Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry.

Elections can be lost but what the government will not permit is being held up as a liar.

Eduardo Zaplana, outgoing Spanish labour minister denies his government cynically attempted to blame ETA for the Madrid bombings in the absence of clear proof.

In 24 hours Kosovo was transferred from normality to a state close to anarchy.

Veton Surroi, editor of the Koha Ditore newspaper, as internecine riots engulf the Balkan province.

I'd have been better advising Jim to go to Iraq or Robert Mugabe's part of Africa. He would know what to expect there.

James Kavanagh, whose son, James jnr, died after being punched at a Dublin bus stop. His killer was jailed for manslaughter this week.

Some die young, some die old. The harsh truth is that the cause of death is birth.

Artist David Hockney attacks New York's smoking ban.

To those people who perjured themselves in court, I wonder how you can seriously live with your conscience.

Brian Laide whose son Dermot was convicted of the manslaughter of Brian Murphy.

It is a world of people who long for immortality but don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy day.

Actress Imogen Stubbs attacks the Beverly Hills lifestyle.

The genome is a bit like War and Peace: very long, quite boring and written in a language you do not want to learn.

Gene expert Ewan Birney.

We had people who had glasses and bottles smashed in their faces during the night, and then we had people arriving in the morning realising they were in pain after they sobered up.

A staff member at Dublin's Beaumont Hospital helps with the St Patrick's Day clean-up.

The world is approaching its sixth major extinction event.

Jeremy Thomas, of the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology in Dorset, warns environmental disaster is looming.

It is about the only thing I have done that any of my kids have considered worthy of comment.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair, on appearing in The Simpsons.

I specialise in straight-to-airplane movies.

Actor Ben Stiller