They are barking up the wrong tree and I will not, cannot and have no intention of negotiating with them. They had better make up their minds.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, referring to the ASTI
I witnessed no corruption. I want to put that on record. Charles Haughey was completely and utterly an honest politician. He is a good man.
- Ms Catherine Butler, who worked for Mr Haughey from 1987 to 1992
I'm delighted. Myself and my family are over the moon. I want to thank everybody who has helped us, especially my father who spent his life over the last 17 years constantly searching for justice for us.
- Mr Joseph Meleady (34), one of the so-called Tallaght Two, speaking after the Court of Crimimal Appeal certified a miscarriage of justice
A brilliant day for Irish justice.
- Mr Joseph Grogan (34), the other member of the Tallaght Two
Very bad for Irish justice.
- Mr Eamon Gavin, the theft of whose car brought about the convictions of the two men
Pothitivity begats pothitivity, whereas negativity begats negativity. Pleathe, help me with this message.
- Former boxer Chris Eubank
I don't think justice has been seen to be done.
- Mrs Bernie Guerin, mother of murdered journalist Veronica Guerin
I couldn't believe it the other day when I picked up a British newspaper and read that 82 per cent of men would rather sleep with a goat than me.
- The Duchess of York
I must have Irish blood myself. Every time I speak in public I end up sounding like James Joyce.
- President Bush
There is a phrase in Dublin, "Don't hit me with the child in my arms". We are hitting a mother with the child in her arms.
- Ms Marian McGennis TD, of the Government's decision to challenge a £40,000 award to the mother of an autistic child denied education by the State
I was drunk and I didn't know what I was doing. I'm a really nice person, and I've found Jesus.
- British citizen, Steve Handy, after pleading guilty in a Spanish court to attacking an air hostess with a vodka bottle on a flight from London to Malaga
I do not want to be anti-British about this. But we absolutely have to drive home to them that we demand the imposition of measures which will guarantee, as far as possible, that there will be no further spread of the disease over to Ireland from Britain.
- The Fine Gael spokesman on Foreign Affairs, Mr Jim O'Keeffe, after the arrival of foot-and-mouth in the State
As long as I am Agriculture Minister there will be no medieval practices.
- The Dutch Agriculture Minister, Mr Laurens-Jan Brinkhorst, referring to the spectacle of funeral pyres for cattle throughout Britain
When you're up to your ass in alligators it's hard to remember that your job was to drain the swamps.
- A Western diplomat in Pristina, on the ongoing crisis in Kosovo