Dr Ian Paisley gives Bertie Ahern that historic public handshake

We have every right to put these people on trial. But I want to give them as a gift to the British people, to say they are all free Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces the release of the 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf on 23 March

You are talking of a level of incompetence, a level of carelessness and a lack of concern which is frightening As the report on the Dublin-Monaghan bombings is published, solicitor for the families of the victims Greg O'Neill criticises garda handling of the case

How dare they use my child as a way to fight their battles.

The nurses strike enrages Ann Bourke, the Co Westmeath mother of a sick child