This Week They Said

No one should be in any doubt that it was the IRA that said No

No one should be in any doubt that it was the IRA that said No.
DUP leader Rev Ian Paisley as hopes of a settlement in the North are dashed.

We restate our commitment to the peace process. But we will not submit to a process of humiliation.

The IRA's riposte.

I don't know if any of Gerry Adams's family was killed in the Troubles, and I can't speak for him. But let's be very clear about this and let me say this to Gerry Adams: Jerry was never part of the Good Friday agreement. Never.

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Ann McCabe, whose husband, Det Garda Jerry McCabe, was killed by the IRA.

We outsource everything except consumption, and that is not sustainable much longer.

Stephen S. Roach, the chief economist for Morgan Stanley, on the indebtedness brought on by America's obsessive spending.

We have now left a hard and dark past behind us.

Hamid Karzai, Afghan President, at his inauguration ceremony.

We have a couple of copies already.

The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Dick Roche, says the State was not behind the €390,000 bid for an original copy of the 1916 Proclamation Of Independence.

Bush's re-election benefited from the votes of three million evangelical Christians, most of whom hate the freedoms associated with western liberalism.

Dr Malise Ruthven, an independent scholar based in London, speaking at the Understanding Islam conference in Dublin.

There is only one thing the Republican power brokers want more than for us to lurch to the left, and that's for us to lurch to the right.

Howard Dean, the former governor of Vermont, says the Democrats must stick to progressive principles in order to act as a counterbalance to the Republican majority in Washington.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, is confronted by troops in Kuwait over substandard equipment and supply shortages.

I don't think love or loneliness is dead and buried in rural Ireland; it is just that we are changing with the times.

Kay Kevlihan, of the Irish Farmers' Journal, which is to cease publishing its "Getting In Touch" column after 40 years.

My aim will be to ensure that whenever there are differences we will use the telephone rather than the megaphone.

John Bruton, the former taoiseach, takes up his new role as EU ambassador to Washington.

My parents brought me up with such strict Irish-Catholic views about vanity that I was taught that it was utterly shameful to look in a mirror. So I didn't even know I had gorgeous blue eyes until I was 25.

Actor Gabriel Byrne recalls his strict upbringing.

Change always makes people frightened. When one has to destroy a church to build the theatre, a controversy has already started.

Tobia Botta, the architect who has supervised the controversial renovation of La Scala opera house in Milan.

There was nothing but darkness. I thought our time had come.

Maria Tamares, plucked from the rubble of a building in the Philippines where she and her family had been trapped for 10 days after a landslide.

Is this the biggest financial bubble in history?

The Economist magazine wonders how long house prices can continue to rise across the world.