The worst threat is that I am going to be killed. They [RUC interrogators] told one guy: "You're going to die when you get out. And tell Rosemary she's going to die too."
- Lurgan solicitor Rosemary Nelson, who was murdered by loyalists last Monday, on RUC intimidation
Rosemary Nelson - the people's voice - murdered by the RUC/RIR.
- Graffiti in Lurgan
In this case there are expressions of concern that have been made at an international level, and I must be sensitive to those expressions of concern.
- The RUC Chief Constable, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, on his decision to involve a senior English police officer and the FBI in the Nelson murder investigation
The bulk of the criticism was not an exercise in reasoned argument but personal ad hominem attack: he was insensitive, as a celibate he must be ignorant, the Catholic Church is discredited anyway, etc, etc.
- Seamus Murphy SJ, on the reaction to Archbishop Desmond Connell's speech on planned parenthood
I was upset at the thought that my story would never be told and he would never be formally found guilty. I wanted him to show remorse, to look down in the court room as I told my story. That won't happen now.
- Sex abuse victim Paul Molloy (28) on the Wexford paedophile priest, Father Sean Fortune, who has committed suicide
Father Fortune's hope, like the hope of all believers, lies in the mercy of God, and God . . . is rich in mercy.
- The Bishop of Ferns, Dr Brendan Comiskey, at Father Fortune's funeral
I was robbed.
- Lennox Lewis, British boxer, on his drawn fight with Evander Holyfield
What you do when you have a dispute is to resolve it . . . The question still hangs over us: "Who is the best?"
- Boxing promoter Don King
I'm not Stevie Wonder. I can see with my own eyes that Lennox won that fight.
- Frank Bruno
I kept thinking, listening to him, what mother would tell her son she had been raped if it hadn't happened . . . it added to the credibility . . . he was persuasive.
- Former Clinton aide David Gergen, after seeing Juanita Broaddrick's son on CNN talking about his mother's rape allegations against the President
It is becoming difficult to find anyone who has even the slightest sense of responsibility.
- From a report into allegations of corruption and nepotism in the European Commission, which has resigned en masse
We have resigned and have no desire or intention of remaining in office a moment longer than we have to.
- Commission statement on Wednesday
She was a danger on the road but at least she didn't have a mobile phone in her other hand.
- Judge John Brophy, as he fined Jacqueline Durney, of Athlumney Castle, Navan, Co Meath, for applying make-up while driving
Two, four, six, eight, how do you know St Patrick's straight?
- Gay rights activists who were excluded from the New York St Patrick's Day parade
Normally when you park something in Ireland, it gets vandalised and this applies to the peace process. People want to blow it off course but it is the only game in town.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, in Washington