I have discussed it with the Taoiseach and I mean were puzzled by it for a start but secondly were also quite annoyed that material relating to our budget is being discussed in another parliament before the Government has made decisions on it - Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore on the release to a German parliamentary committee of details of the Governments plans to save €3.8 billion in next months budget
Without this obligation to inform the Bundestag we are unable to pay the next tranche. To free up the next tranche today in Brussels we had to inform yesterday about the EFSF legislation – a German finance ministry spokesman explains why sharing the budget plans was necessary if Ireland is to get its next instalment of bailout funds
We have seen how little it profited so many men to gain the whole world - Seamus Heaney on Celtic Tiger values
If I think I should take part in the election, I will. Some people are worried that taking part could harm my dignity. Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity – Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi announces that her party will contest the countrys first parliamentary elections in 20 years
There is no racism, there is maybe one of the players towards another, he has a word or a gesture which is not the correct one, but also the one who is affected by that. He should say that this is a game. At the end of the game, we shake hands - Fifa president Sepp Blatter sees no evil
If you use a racial slur it wont go away, you cannot exchange a jersey, you cant mitigate it with a handshake, thats why we call for action to be taken against players. We should differentiate between racial remarks and remarks when players are fighting for the ball – South African government minister and Fifa official Tokyo Sexwale, a former fighter with the armed wing of the African National Council.
We reiterate that the meaning of this campaign is exclusively to combat the culture of hatred in all its forms – Benetton defends an ad campaign featuring an image of Pope Benedict XVI kissing an Egyptian imam