Quotes of the week from Ireland and around the world
We are not expecting to drive into Baghdad and suddenly seize it.
Maj Gen Stanley McChrystal, United States Joint Chiefs-of-Staff.
He wanted to fight this war on the cheap. He got what he wanted.
A US colonel criticises Donald Rumsfeld's strategy.
America doesn't leave its heroes behind. It never has. It never will.
Jim Wilkinson, a spokesman for US Central Command after American special forces rescue Private Jessica Lynch, held captive in an Iraqi hospital.
Bulldozers are particularly useful in this kind of war, to break houses
Martin Van Creveld, a military strategist at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, gives the US military tips on how to conquer Baghdad.
That old UN girl - it turns out she just ain't what she was cracked up to be. She's been demoted. Now she's the world's janitor.
Novelist Arundhati Roy despairs at the loss of power of the United Nations.
Clearly, the Americans misjudged the determination of the Iraqi forces.
Veteran US TV reporter Peter Arnett, in an impromptu interview with Iraqi TV. He was later fired by NBC news.
My real responsibility is to bring light to the world and make the world a better place.
Pop star Madonna.
Chirac's government consists of a slippery, double-dealing bunch of so-called politicians who wouldn't know honourable behaviour if it kissed them on the lips.
Soccer legend George Best.
Isn't there anyone in that man's life who's prepared to tell him the truth?
Actor Robbie Coltrane on singer Michael Jackson.
There may be a summer of discontent.
The Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, warns his reforms could provoke controversy.
We were all just singing Give Peace a Chance when they came barging in.
Breda Walsh, an anti-war protester caught up in a baton charge by gardaí outside the Oireachtas.
Had they stayed behind the crowd control barriers, as requested by the gardaí, there would have been no difficulties.
The Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell, retorts.
When he turned to face the audience the first time he took off his clothes, I was thinking - 007? More like 003-and-a-half, and that's being generous.
A theatre-goer watches Sean Connery's son Jason bare all in in David Hare's The Blue Room in Cork.