We've got to stay here, get ourselves together, be a family, stick together.

I do not even know where my wife and two daughters are. I just want to get a little help getting established, so I can get my life back together and go back home -- but that's if I want to go back.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

If you're from Dublin, for example, chances are you live with your family, if you're lucky enough to, right up to the mid-20s. And most of the people I know, when they finally sort of set off on their own, they don't stray all that far.

It takes a couple weeks to turn the photos into tiles. We're only ordering them in groups of 50.