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This anniversary reminds us that the attitudes we had back in 1984 after the Hunger Strike and its aftermath, the feelings of anger and frustration, the legitimacy of our emotions, was expressed in a justified wrath carried out by the IRA which, despite Thatcher's bluster the following morning at the podium, put some manners on her and her colonial power. Danny Morrison marks the 20th anniversary of the IRA's bombing of the British Tory Conference in the Grand Hotel in Brighton, 12 October 1984. Andersonstown News, Monday 11 October.

I think it's always wrong to target civilians, because even when you understood the IRA, they never targeted civilians. Labour MP Clare Short stands up for the IRA in an interview with the Dubai-based Gulf News last week. She subsequently denied she had made the comment, however a tape of the interview, proving she did, was later acquired by British Newspaper the Evening Mail.

Please, please, stop the war and prevent other lives being lost. It is illegal, it has to stop. Blair has blood on his hands. Paul Bigley, brother of British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was beheaded last week by his Iraqi captors, in a statement on Friday 8 October.

We invaded a country, thousands of people have died and Iraq never posed a grave or growing danger. Senator John D Rockefeller IV responds to the Iraq survey report last week, which revealed the country had no capacity to build weapons of mass destruction, nor any stocks of them. The Irish Times, Saturday 9 October.

No one is above the law. Dublin Mayor Micheal Conaghan talks to the press after his car was clamped while he attended a city council meeting last Monday 4 October.

He flew high as an actor and person. Lou Lumenick of the New York Post pays tribute to Christopher Reeves (pictured) who died from heart failure on Monday, at the age of 52. The Superman star was left paralysed from the neck down after a horse-riding accident in 1995 and was renowned for his courage and strength in dealing with the traumatic event.

Neither Bush nor Kerry will stand up to Israel, so the terror will go on. The Guardian's Peter Preston discusses the lack of debate amongst the two presidential candidates on the real issues that trouble the Middle East, The Guardian, Monday 11 October.