The icy reception of this week will turn into total exclusion - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, speaking in Washington, warns that Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams faces further exclusion unless the IRA disbands and ends criminality
A criminal syndicate that steals and murders to serve members' personal interests - US senator John McCain is critical of the IRA at an American Ireland Fund event
It's irrelevant. I think it's just a publicity stunt for them - Ann McCabe rejects an apology from the IRA killers of her husband, Det Garda Jerry McCabe
I have been haunted by the conditions of the cruelly named Fatima Mansions - Mr Justice Paul Carney comments on a manslaughter case in Dublin inner city over which he presided
We have to know that there are no winners or losers among us. We either all win or we all lose - Ghazi al-Yawer, the interim Iraqi president, as the country's first freely elected parliament begins its opening session in Baghdad
You can always tell a great painting because when you get close there are all these nervous marks - British artist Damien Hirst
The ambassador makes these interventions in a whole range of sectors in pursuit of US interests and on behalf of US firms. This was just a case where the ambassador saw US interests at play and decided to get involved - A spokesman for the US embassy in Dublin says ambassador James Kenny lobbied on behalf of the Wrigley Corporation ahead of the Government's decision not to impose a levy on chewing gum
If our guys want to poke somebody in the chest to get the name of a bomb-maker so they can save the lives of Americans, I'm for it - Jim Talent, a Republican senator, responds to the conclusion of a Pentagon report that "no single, overarching reason" led to the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib
I devote a certain amount of time to Russian politics, as every decent person should do who opposes the dictator Vladimir Putin- Garry Kasparov, the world's No 1 chess player, hints at a career in politics following his retirement from professional chess
I used to be a rich man. Right now I couldn't buy spats for a hummingbird - The Hollywood actor Robert Blake, found not guilty of fatally shooting his wife, ponders a return to work