. . . "eh"
- Password used by Swedish computer hackers to access Hotmail.com, Microsoft's internet electronic mail service used by 50 million people
A common slut.
- Ballinamore, Co Leitrim, priest Father James Duffy's description, during his Saturday evening Mass homily, of Sonia O'Sullivan, whose baby, Ciara, was born out of wedlock
Sonia is happy in her position and if that man has a problem with it, it's his problem. If there are problems in the church, Sonia O'Sullivan isn't one of them.
- the athlete's father
I am sorry if I hurt her and regret in particular the use of the word `slut'.
- Father Duffy on Monday
Demarcation and resistance to technology are not acceptable and conflict is not an option.
- Independent Newspapers (Ireland) MD Gavin O'Reilly laying down a marker about staffing in the company's pro- posed new hi-tech £40 million printing plant
It is hard to imagine a more glaring conflict of interest than one in which a person who assumes the role of counsellor and adviser to a young girl in the later stages of a crisis pregnancy, proposes himself and his wife as prospective adoptive parents of the baby and proposes taking custody of the baby within days of the baby's birth.
- Miss Justice Laffoy branding as unlawful the conduct of an anti-abortion pregnancy advice centre
He gave me all these pictures and letters from people he said went to him and decided to have their babies . . . he gave me medals and prayers and a poem meant to be from a foetus to its mother asking not to be killed.
- 20-year-old Dublin woman who sought advice from the agency
Am I to believe that no politician had any association with anything that happened during that decade? It's news to me.
- Maurice Doyle, former Central Bank governor and former secretary general at the Department of Finance, to the DIRT inquiry
Nobody is going to agree to live inside a mafia state.
- David Trimble on the difficulties of entering government with Sinn Fein while IRA violence continues
If he begins the review next week, I will not be there.
- UUP deputy leader John Taylor promising to boycott George Mitchell's efforts at resolving the decommissioning problem
I think there might be bandages, blood and crutches on the plane going out tomorrow because we've really worked hard out there tonight, but I'm delighted.
- Mick McCarthy on the Republic's 2-1 victory over Yugoslavia in Lansdowne Road
Boooo
- some of the crowd at the match when the Yugoslav national anthem was played
I'm sorry, but you must understand, I was feeling very emotional at the time.
- pro-Indonesian militiaman apologising to journalist for breaking his arm and stabbing him during pro-independence protest in East Timor
Dolphins will always require food, shelter or sex, and Belmullet is obviously providing for one or other of those basic needs.
- Mayo environmentalist Shay Fennelly urging protection for the school of six bottle-nosed dolphins who took up residency in Broadhaven Bay
They were very well behaved and a credit to themselves.
- Garda Chief Supt Michael Finnegan on the 80,000 fans, many of them under 18, who turned up for the Slane rock festival in Co Meath which was headlined by the British star, Robbie Williams