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Sinn Féin must bear its share of responsibility for all the incidents

Sinn Féin must bear its share of responsibility for all the incidents. Some of its senior members, who are also senior members of [the Provisional IRA], were involved in sanctioning the series of robberies.
The Independent Monitoring Commission says senior Sinn Féin figures knew in advance of the Northern Bank robbery.

What I think the Taoiseach has to do and what the Minister for Justice has to do is to face up to the import of their remarks, have us arrested, bring us forward into the due process.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams gives his reaction.

That is off the table and I do not see it coming back on the table either for that matter.

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The Taoiseach rules out early release for the IRA killers of Det Garda Jerry McCabe.

They deserve to be completely and publicly exonerated.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair apologises to the Conlon and Maguire families for wrongful imprisonment over the IRA bomb attacks in Guildford and Woolwich in 1974.

I suppose the most outrageous one was [the Kris Kristofferson song] Help Me Make It Through the Night. Sometimes people just like a piece of music because they like it, without thinking of the words or meaning.

Father Pat O'Donoghue of the Dublin Diocesan Liturgical Resource Centre, which has compiled an album of "appropriate" wedding music.

Crowds barged through the doors and the security guards just stood out of the way as otherwise they would have been trampled.

Patricia Ming, who was at the opening of Ikea's newest store in Edmonton, north London, where a near riot caused several injuries.

I'm just coming down to earth.

Camilla Parker Bowles is delighted to be marrying Prince Charles.

We used to be ashamed. Now we are as shameless as you.

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, claims transparency as the country holds its first municipal elections, which exclude women.

History teaches that talks are the only way to obtain by political methods what is difficult to achieve by war.

Russian human rights campaigners call on President Putin to accept an offer of peace talks with the Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov.

One minute I'm waiting for Kate to arrive to join me in the jacuzzi for a romantic evening, the next thing I can remember is doing cold turkey in a [ prison] cell. It was supposed to have been a great night.

Pete Doherty, singer and friend of Kate Moss, after his release from Pentonville prison.

Not only no, but hell, no. I'm going to serve this President for the next four years, and then I'm out of here.

The US Vice-President Dick Cheney says that he will never consider running for the office of president.

It's hard for me because both of these towns voted for me twice.

Bill Clinton is reluctant to back a winner ahead of the Super Bowl, in which Boston's New England Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles.

America is like one of the big heads of a seven-headed dragon.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismisses Condoleezza Rice's description of Iran's approach to human rights as "loathsome".

We have manufactured nukes for self-defence to cope with the Bush administration's ever more undisguised policy to isolate and stifle the [ north].

The North Korean foreign ministry announces that Pyongyang has nuclear capability.

It's really embarrassing because it's so uncool to say it, but I'm thrilled.

Bob Geldof receives a Brit award for outstanding contribution to music.