We believe it's imperative in this situation.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says an attack on Iraq must be backed by a UN mandate.
These countries are very rude and rather reckless of the danger of aligning themselves too quickly with the Americans. Their situation is very delicate. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining the EU, they couldn't have chosen a better way.
President Jacques Chirac of France on support among east European states for Washington's belligerent stance on Iraq.
The role of a leader is to decide policy based upon the security of the people.
Tony Blair says last week's anti-war protests have not diminished his resolve to stand shoulder to shoulder with the US against Saddam Hussein.
If I could do that, I would have carried on playing.
Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson denies kicking David Beckham on purpose.
This is the deal, warts and all.
Education Minister Noel Dempsey presents his proposals on supervision and substitution pay to teachers.
A classic case of how people can be labelled in society by those who are supposed to promote justice and equality in our community.
Ciaran Cuffe, Green Party law reform spokesman, says the judiciary should receive "anti-racism" training after two judges apologise for controversial remarks about ethnic minorities.
They are sleepwalking this country into recession.
Labour leader Pat Rabbitte censures Government fiscal policy.
Very, very grim indeed.
Health Minister Micheál Martin on conditions in the Central Mental Hospital.
It's inexpensive, the quality is high and it's really taken hold in a very big way.
Stephen Rowen, director of the Rutland addiction treatment centre, on a boom in cocaine use.
This is wonderful, just wonderful, and it is heavier than I am - like everything.
Actor David Kelly is honoured at the ESB theatre awards.
Are science and religion converging? No. There are modern scientists whose words sound religious but whose beliefs, on close examination, turn out to be identical to those of other scientists who straightforwardly call themselves atheists.
Darwinist Richard Dawkins.
The fact that the French government is prepared to wine and dine Mugabe despite European sanctions against him flies in the face of noble French ideals of justice and liberty.
Human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell criticises the French government for receiving Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.
Go home? I've been fighting since I was 16. I'm now 47. What home would you be talking about?
Raul Wilson, a veteran of Angola's Unita rebel army, as an uneasy peace returns to the war-ravaged African state.
Awards are essentially nonsense and we're all going to die when George Bush has his way.
Chris Martin, lead singer with British band Coldplay, after accepting a "Brit" gong.
Apart from making lawyers millionaires, will it satisfy the families? I don't think so.
Hugh Orde, chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, questions the effectiveness of the Bloody Sunday inquiry.