The way forward is for the governments to keep their obligation to us. They put in their paper that there would have to be photographs and they have got to stand over that.- The DUP leader, the Rev Ian Paisley, insists photographic evidence of IRA decommissioning is crucial to a peace deal in the North
After years of claiming that the issue of arms was at the top of the agenda for unionism, Ian Paisley is now demanding, bizarrely, that the IRA do not deal with the issue of their weapons. Gerry Kelly, a senior member of Sinn Féin
No one knows to whom the baton or batons of the human race will be handed. The judges in the case of Baha Mousa, the Iraqi civilian allegedly killed by Coalition troops, reject the notion that there are territories in the world for which the human rights convention was not designed
So many years have gone by without any real information about what happened to our parents. Now we have hope that some truth will come to light, though I know it will be a slow process. Jenny Stoulman of Santiago, Chile, whose parents disappeared in 1977, celebrates the ruling that brings Gen Pinochet a step closer to trial on charges of murder and kidnapping
They have guns. They have dynamite. I can see them in front of me. Stella Matara describes the situation inside the Athens hostage bus by mobile phone
This is a grievous miscarriage of justice, which will come as no great surprise given the record of human rights abuses by the Colombian government. The Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams, on the 17-year jail sentences handed down to three Irishmen charged with training FARC guerrillas
He who lives by the Mail dies by the Mail. A headline in the Financial Times following the resignation of the British Home Secretary, David Blunkett, over the fast-tracking of a work visa for the nanny of his former lover.
To me, as far as black people are concerned, this is the equivalent of Neil Armstrong taking the first steps on the Moon. Shaun Wallace, the black winner of this year's Mastermind, says his victory corrects the misconception that black people excel only at sport
Businessmen will now compete with toddlers for the title of most annoying in the airplane. Roger Entner, a telecommunications analyst and a frequent flyer, on reports that the mobile-phone ban on flights is being reconsidered
The EU has opened its door to Turkey. The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, as Ankara is invited to begin accession talks with the European Union
While recruits should not be actually horse-faced, they should not be too good-looking. They should be just plain women and not targets for marriage. Independent TD Frank Sherwin as the ban on female gardaí was lifted in 1958. His advice is revealed in a book Crime, Punishment And The Search For Order In Ireland, published this week