The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

To this day, good English usually means the English wealthy and powerful people spoke a generation or two ago.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

There's no such thing as an unabridged dictionary.

A fan is someone who, if you have made an idiot of yourself on the pitch, doesn't think you've done a permanent job.

We've been given a second chance. How many people can say that?

My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my lifefor our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul.

The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.

Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

It occurs to me that for a long time she has been doing her own version of resisting.

And, to all married men, be this a caution, Which they should duly tender as their life, Neither to doat too much, nor doubt a wife.

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.