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So contradictory and unbelievable that it comprises a tissue of lies

So contradictory and unbelievable that it comprises a tissue of lies.The Morris tribunal report dismisses the testimony of two Donegal gardaí.

I intend to stand by the force, not in any sense to dump on the force but to bring it through.

The Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, reacting to the findings of Mr Justice Morris.

He's not the shotgun-dad type, he's the joking-around-to-the-point-where-he-scares-the-heck-out-of-them type.

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Jenna Bush says her father, President Bush, frightens boyfriends.

It seems to me that policy was driving intelligence, and that is an extremely dangerous thing to do as a nation state.

Sir John Walker, former deputy chair of Westminster's Joint Intelligence Committee, after the Butler report concluded that intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq was flawed in places.

Terrorism will be terminated.

Iyad Allawi, Iraqi Prime Minister.

Let every fool listen. Saddam has to be executed.

Chants by marchers in Baghdad.

It was as if the UK and US governments did not care what the inspectors said.

Hans Blix, former head of the UN weapons inspectors in Iraq, says that London and Washington were set on war.

Housing is one of the greatest levellers in Irish society today, with almost all sectors of the community struggling with housing affordability.

Aideen Hayden, chair of Threshold, the national housing organisation.

The practitioners now in government have the arrogance, greed and perhaps a desperate sense of panic to lead them to eat like gluttons.

Edward Clay, British High Commissioner in Kenya, accuses the government there of rife corruption. The administration had vowed to weed out corrupt practices.

The incredible thing is that the ball reached us ... we were so far from the goal.

Pablo Carral, who caught the ball David Beckham blazed into the stands during England's Euro 2004 penalty shoot-out against Portugal. This week Carral was offered €10 million for it, but the bid was found to be fake after security checks.

People have to realise that the sacraments are religious events ... People who simply reject the real essence of a sacrament should not present themselves.

Dr Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin.

About seven days in, I started to notice this pressure on my chest, and by day nine I was getting incredibly depressed.

Movie-maker Morgan Spurlock, who ate nothing but McDonald's for a month for a documentary about the side effects of fast food.

War remains the decisive human failure.

J.K. Galbraith, Harvard professor of economics.

A large slice of two years' work lifted via a piece of round plastic. It doesn't seem credible, but that's what's just happened to us ... it was my CD.

U2 guitarist The Edge after a master copy of the band's unfinished new album vanishes in France.

It's a slap in the face, not personally for Hillary, but for every woman in the Democratic Party and every woman in America.

Judith Hope, a Democrat fund-raiser reacts to news that Senator Hillary Clinton will not have a prominent speaking role at the party's national convention.