No one is suggesting we're on our uppers. Tánaiste and Minister for Finance Brian Cowen says that, while the rate of economic growth is set to slow, there is little danger of a recession.
The matter was not brought to my attention.
Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey says Aer Lingus told a department official in mid-June that it was considering moving its Shannon-Heathrow operations to Belfast, but the matter was not brought to his attention until six weeks later.
Muslims know that if they attack a woman they will burn in hell.
Exiled former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto returns to the country. Bomb attacks killed more than 130 as she made her homecoming.
The United States sees the establishment of a Palestinian state and a two-state solution as absolutely essential for the future, not just of Palestinians and Israelis but also for the Middle East and indeed to American interests.
US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice says the time has come for the creation of a Palestinian state.
We know each other, and we have developed, I think, a very close friendship - something like a reunion of one family.
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, meets US president George Bush.
Why every fourth German still believes National Socialism had its good sides.
A headline in the German current affairs magazine Stern, which conducted a poll into attitudes towards Nazism in the country.
This is the third or fourth crisis - in inverted commas - around the current management team. We had it after Cyprus, we had it after San Marino, we had it after Prague so people are getting conditioned to this form of crisis but I think that it's important that the members of the board get time to reflect on recent performances and they'll do that over the next number of days.
FAI chief executive John Delaney seems to hint that time could be running out for beleaguered Ireland manager Steve Staunton, following a fortuitous home draw with minnows Cyprus.
Direct dialogue with the leaders of states . . . is the shortest path to success, rather than a policy of threats, sanctions, and a resolution to use force.
President Putin of Russia, after meeting with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
All the problems we have faced in the past are now behind us.
Libya's ambassador to the United Nations, Giadalla Ettalhi, as the country is elected to the UN Security Council.
I think it is safe to say that millions of evangelicals are questioning the perception at least that we are the wholly owned subsidiary of the Republican party.
Richard Cizik, head of government affairs for America's National Association of Evangelicals, amid speculation that the millions of evangelicals who helped deliver George Bush the White House may turn against his Republican party in the next presidential election.
I've got to stop myself becoming Irish literature's equivalent of Sonia O'Sullivan.
Novelist Anne Enright is showered with congratulations after winning the Booker Prize.
I think this would mean, for the 23 million people of Taiwan, a treaty of surrender.
Taiwan's president, Chen Shui-Bian, rejects peace overtures from China that would require Taiwan to accept the principle of "one China".
It's a thrill for me to be invited to tag along.
Roberta McCain (95) joins her son, John (74) on the US presidential campaign trail to show he isn't too old to hold the office.
I am concerned that Turkey could be dragged into an Iraqi quagmire.
Esref Erdem, the only member of the Turkish parliament to vote against authorising incursions into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels.