The IRA was prepared to shoot people directly involved in the killing of Robert McCartney. A statement from the IRA
The IRA is living, I don't want to say in a parallel moral universe, but in a twilight zone, where they have completely different expectations to the rest of us.
The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell
We can say that that is amazing, we can say that that is extraordinary, we can say it shouldn't have happened, we can say that it should have been rectified along the way by all the ministers and all the secretaries general, but that doesn't get us anywhere.
The Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, responds to the Travers report on the illegal charging of people in nursing homes for three decades
Aer Lingus's loss is BA's gain.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary as former Aer Lingus CEO Willie Walsh is announced as the new man in charge at British Airways
I'm issuing a warrant for his arrest. I'm forfeiting his bail. I will hold the order for one hour.
Judge Rodney Melville as Michael Jackson fails to show up on time for his trial in California
Maybe I'm the father he never had.
George Bush snr, the former president, in a rare moment of intimacy about his former political rival Bill Clinton, with whom he has been touring south-east Asia
The adversarial system is wrong, and most countries don't have it any more. Most of the time you don't need solicitors at all. Very often, they're the ones causing the standoffs and the hassle.
Family law judge Mary Martin
He has a proven track record of effective multilateralism.
Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State, on the appointment of John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN.
He once said that if the UN building in New York lost 10 storeys, it "wouldn't make a bit of difference"
We ask for truth and justice.
We hope that within the next few hours this affirmed wish for loyal co-operation will yield its first major concrete result.
Gianfranco Fini, Italy's foreign minister, demands that the US identify and punish those responsible for the death of an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq
What are you complaining about? Isn't it your husband's money?
The words of a bank manager to Catherine Flynn, whose husband was allowed withdraw €114,000 from a joint account without her consent
