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Just because people are going off and getting it done in backstreet operations doesn't mean we should bring it into Irish hospitals…

Just because people are going off and getting it done in backstreet operations doesn't mean we should bring it into Irish hospitalsObstetrician Dr Peter McKenna after the infant child of migrants dies while being circumcised.

It's progress. People have to cross the road.

Ken Moran, senior executive engineer with Leitrim County Council as the county gets its first permanent traffic lights.

I'll probably be found dead in the woods.

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The words of British weapons specialist Dr David Kelly six months before his apparent suicide. His chilling prediction emerged this week at the Hutton Inquiry, which is investigating his death days after he was linked to leaked comments casting doubt on the British government's justification for war in Iraq.

It [the dossier] had to be revelatory, we had to show it was new and informative and part of a bigger case.

Alastair Campbell, Downing Street press secretary, on the findings of meetings in the lead-up to the "dodgy" dossier at the heart of the Kelly controversy.

We are . . . looking over our shoulders, especially after dark.

Danny Jones, mayor of Charleston, West Virginia, where three people have been killed outside convenience stores by a sniper.

I would not bury Amin. I will never touch Amin. Not even with a long spoon.

Yoweri Museveni, president of Uganda, on the death of former dictator Idi Amin.

Obviously this coalition is not in the business of targeting reporters. If he was shot there was something mistaking his identity.

Pentagon spokesman Ken McClellan as US forces shoot dead a television cameraman after a mortar attack on a Baghdad prison.

Oh God, why is this happening to us?

A UN worker after a bomb attack kills UN commissioner to Iraq, Vieira de Mello.

His obsession with me is pervy and creepy. I just want it to stop. He's coming from somewhere I don't understand: from weirdo land.

Artist Tracey Emin's feud with a critic gets out of hand as she threatens to sue him for defamation of character.

It seems to me incredible that in a Christian country where you have a caring and compassionate government that he could not take the time to come and stand for a minute's silence with the families of Omagh.

Michael Gallagher, spokesman for the Omagh victims' group after the Taoiseach declines to attend the fifth anniversary commemoration of the atrocity because he was on holidays.

The end of the road-map is a cliff that both sides will fall off.

Colin Powell, US secretary of State as the Middle East peace process derails once more.

Sharon can only choose between a bad option and another bad option.

David Kimche, Israeli policy expert, on the dilemma facing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after the latest suicide bombing in Jerusalem.

Our society must become more responsive and attentive to others.

French President Jacques Chirac as a heatwave kills thousands.

They usually pick a person who is busy with his own thoughts.

Psychologist Leonid Griman on hypnotist thieves running amok in Moscow.

I can't believe this is happening to me. It's a nightmare.

Jemma Gunning, a British tourist sentenced to eight months in jail by a Greek court for removing her top in a crowded resort bar. She was later released.