This Week They Said

God curse America. God save Osama bin Laden. You will never get him

God curse America. God save Osama bin Laden. You will never get him.Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the September 11th attacks.

What happened in Lourdes hospital before could be replicated in many other hospitals if the circle isn't closed.

Judge Maureen Harding Clark, who inquired into the high rate of Caesarean hysterectomies carried out at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda by Dr Michael Neary, says her recommended reforms have not been implemented.

No legitimate interest is served when oil and gas become tools of intimidation or blackmail.

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US vice-president Dick Cheney suggests energy-rich Russia is attempting to "bully" Europe.

Her findings were highly speculative. I couldn't imagine anyone concurring with her.

Consultant chemical pathologist Dr Bill Tormey takes issue with State Pathologist Marie Cassidy's conclusion that alcohol-induced apnoea was the most likely cause of Brian Murphy's death outside Anabel's nightclub.

When Bobby Sands began to say they needed to go on a hunger strike we argued, and I actually wrote to him, saying we were morally and strategically and tactically and physically opposed to it.

Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams recalls the republican hunger strikes of 1981. Sands died 25 years ago this week.

There are obviously people who don't read a newspaper, don't watch the television or don't listen to the radio and simply don't get the message. But they will find out the hard way.

Road Safety Authority chairman Gay Byrne as it emerges nearly 320 people were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs over the May bank holiday weekend.

It's been done with love, intelligence and the best of German design.

Hans Wall, inventor of Berlin's new "superloo", a public convenience which features chill-out music, air conditioning and 24-hour reception.

I am not after her money, as she is poor.

Muhammad Noor Che Musam (33) who is to wed 104-year-old Wook Kundor in Malaysia. The marriage will be his first and her 21st.

I think the national anthem ought to be sung in English, and I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English.

President Bush has issues with a Spanish version of the American national anthem.

Urgent information for comedians, cartoonists and humorists: He's gone.

La Stampa newspaper marks the end of Silvio Berlusconi's premiership in Italy. Presiding over a media empire, Mr Berlusconi did not take kindly to being lampooned in office.

Geographic illiteracy impacts our economic well-being, our relationships with other nations and the environment, and isolates us from our world.

John Fahey, president of the National Geographic Society, which has published a survey showing 60 per cent of Americans aged 18 to 24 cannot point out Iraq on a map.

We underestimated the concerns of those living along the pipeline and should have recognised the strength of feeling there. I am personally sorry for the people involved and for the community of Mayo.

Shell Ireland managing director Andy Pyle expresses regret over its handling of the Corrib pipeline affair.

Being thrown at the top of a big organisation, there's a sense of loneliness. The loss of anonymity is extraordinary.

Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin on the burdens of high office.

The truly startling thing is that your friends start to die.

Novelist Philip Roth (73) on coming to terms with old age.