EXACTLY what part of ‘I’m deeply sorry’ militant Muslims do not understand is difficult to grasp.

AS a phrase, it ought to be a harbinger of something good, but when new PD leader Michael McDowell said “the best is yet to come”, it sounded more like a threat than a promise.

YOU might not realise it, but every time you take the plunge in most of the swimming pools in the country, or plonk yourself in one of those spas, you are taking your life in your hands, and it’s not necessarily through drowning.

IT USED to be said the streets of London were paved with gold, but if you have €500 to spare, and are stupid enough, a Dublin hotel will pave your palate with a cocktail containing 23-carat gold flakes.

ONE would have imagined US President George W Bush had enough on his plate in Iraq and Afghanistan, but it is characteristic of the man that he is now concerned with the democratisation of Cuba.

THERE are 473 million consumers in the EU and you would assume that such a huge number would make a powerful lobby.

IT IS utterly absurd. Having spent just 95 days in their place of employment since last September — about the equivalent of another man’s overtime — our TDs are reaching for the Factor 10.

IF Warren Buffet had given his $37 billion to the Irish Government instead of Bill Gates’ charities, it would probably have ended up as tax breaks for the very rich.

JUSTICE MINISTER Michael McDowell seriously needs to revisit the drawing board as far as his reserve garda force is concerned, because it istotally impractical.

WHEN Bertie Ahern eventually appeared in the Dáil after the political/legal tornado which hit the country in the past two weeks, it would have been appropriate if he had declared Ireland to be the 52nd US state.