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They expect us to look after their human rights and civil rights, but they have no respect for others. They turn on people

They expect us to look after their human rights and civil rights, but they have no respect for others. They turn on people. They're vicious thugs and I think they have to be treated accordingly. Taoiseach Bertie Ahern condemns gangland killers after the violent murder of armed robber and drug dealer John Daly.

You could not hear anything but the screaming. As I got out of the car, I don't know if he was alive or dead. The taxi driver who witnessed Daly's murder.

At a time when we are suffering from health cutbacks, record murder rates, crowded schools and are told that there are tough times ahead, it beggars belief that the Taoiseach and his Ministers will award themselves €38,000 and €25,000 in extra pay. Fine Gael deputy leader Richard Bruton criticising pay increases for Government Ministers.

It's typical of how the FAI has behaved in recent years. The reaction of former Ireland soccer manager Brian Kerr as Steve Staunton is sacked.

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Obviously I would have to be invited to go and I would have no hesitation in going there to oppose it. French right-wing leader Jean-Marie Le Pen says he would be prepared to travel to Ireland to help groups or individuals opposed to the new EU treaty. Ireland is the only member state which plans a referendum on the treaty.

We're pleased with the economics of this deal. Kevin Johnson, president of platform and services at Microsoft, which paid $240 million for a 1.6 per cent stake in popular social networking site Facebook.

Today it's a Maori head, but tomorrow it could be a mummy in the Louvre. Olivier Henrard, a legal adviser to France's culture ministry. The ministry has refused to allow a Normandy museum return a preserved Maori head to New Zealand.

Why worsen the situation and bring it to a dead end by threatening sanctions or military action?  Vladimir Putin, Russian president, as the US pushes for tougher international sanctions against Iran.

When I see someone on television, when they say, 'This is a suspect', I have a difficult time believing that that actually is a suspect. Willie 'Pete' Williams, freed after serving 22 years in the US for a rape he did not commit.

Just having the chance to play is amazing - it's great to make history. Ariya Jutanukarn (11), who played in the Honda LPGA Thailand golf tournament. She's the youngest golfer ever to compete in a tour event.

It is going to make everything else after this simply awful. Tony Elwood from Australia, who paid $50,000 for a first-class suite aboard the first flight of the Airbus A380 from Singapore to Sydney.

We have lost, I think, and success is now unlikely. The gloomy prognosis of Paddy Ashdown, the former UN envoy, on Nato's military campaign against Islamic militants in Afghanistan.

This is some of the most macabre memorabilia of the history of the cold war that's ever gone on the auction block. Peter Kornbluh, of the US national security archive, as strands of Che Guevara's hair are sold for $100,000.