I just can't believe that young lad, with his whole life ahead of him, would carry a bomb on his back and get on a bus and blow himself up.
I just can't believe that young lad, with his whole life ahead of him, would carry a bomb on his back and get on a bus and blow himself up.
- Jodie Reynolds, from Leeds, whose neighbour is a suspect in the London bombings.
There is going to be trouble. It's just a matter of when.
- Ashley Ullah, a neighbour of Shehzad Tanweer, one of the four suspected terrorists, says racial tensions in Leeds will lead inevtiably to conflict.
Pull up this evil ideology by its roots.
- British prime minister Tony Blair urges UK Muslim leaders to fight extremism.
People are fearful that if a suicide bomber can strike once, he or she can strike again.
- BBC journalist Mark Simpson reports from Leeds.
These issues are completely outside my remit. The Constitution vests the prosecution of offences in an independent officer. I am not in a position to do anything.
- Minister for Justice Michael McDowell says it is up to the DPP to decide if charges should be pressed in relation to the death of Brian Rossiter, who passed away after being found unconscious in a Garda cell in Clonmel, Co Tipperary, in 2002.
The level I would worry about now is low pay.
- Taoiseach Bertie Ahern tells the social partners that the era of major tax cuts is over.
There is a democracy deficit in the UN governance that has to be corrected.
- UN secretary general Kofi Annan, as Germany, Japan, India and Brazil, lobby for a permanent place on the UN Security Council.
I know of at least one unit which was meant to be 2,200 but the real figure was only 300 men.
- Iraqi member of parliament Mahmoud Othman says "ghost battalions" - whose numbers are inflated so that soldiers can pocket extra pay - threaten the security of the country in the long term.
This has been going on for five years behind the scenes, a few more weeks won't make much difference.
- Christopher Philbin, whose father James is one of the "Rossport Five", the Mayo men jailed after obstructing a new gas pipeline in the county.
I think there is a legitimate feeling, 'Why me? What did I do wrong?'
- Jeb Bush, governor of Florida, says many parts of the state affected by Hurricane Dennis are still recovering from Hurricane Ivan 10 months ago.
Lance Armstrong relaxed? I doubt it. Highly. I don't know that I would ever use the words "relaxed" and "Lance Armstrong" in the same sentence.
- Sheryl Crow as her boyfriend takes part in his last Tour de France.
I've never seen so many pools of vomit in my life.
- Cult American singer Aimee Mann, who stayed in Temple Bar this week.
The two teams that get to an All-Ireland should get €10,000 a man. Players are out of pocket no end for the amount of work they put into this game.
- Laois football manager Mick O'Dwyer believes elite GAA players should be rewarded.
I hope it will add to the pressure on the Provisionals to deliver finally on what they promised seven or eight years ago.
- David Lidington, the UK's Conservative party spokesman on Northern Ireland, says the London bombings will make it difficult for the IRA to ever go back to violence.
All I can say is, "Shucks". We ran out of gas.
- N Wayne Hale, deputy manager of Nasa's space shuttle programme, apologises for the cancellation of Discovery's launch because of a malfunction in a fuel sensor.