This Week They Said

A life of outstanding personal integrity and dedicated public service. – President Mary McAleese on the late Brian Lenihan

A life of outstanding personal integrity and dedicated public service. – President Mary McAleese on the late Brian Lenihan

By end 2013, the payments total will have reduced by in excess of 30 per cent relative to 2008 levels. – RTÉ's director general Noel Curran's summer message to RTÉ's top 10 earners

I am very passionate about Ireland and about the future. I hate to see what is happening to it. – Niall O'Dowd joins the stampede to the Áras

I wish to confirm that I have applied for membership of the St Luke's branch of Fine Gael in my home constituency of Cork North Central. – As does Pat Cox (apparently)

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I think I have more than a good shot at it. – Gay Mitchell's hat is definitely in the ring

But you're not running for election in ancient Greece. – Áine Lawlor to David Norris, on the controversy over some of his views

. . . the staff members said they hear [the woman] screaming [inside the bathroom] and that this is a regular occurrence. – Health Information and Quality Authority affidavit asserting abuse of an elderly resident of Rostrevor Nursing Home in Dublin

. . . completely unfounded . . . – Sarah Lipsett, a director of the home, rejects the assertions

Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would be belittling for Lady Thatcher. Sarah Palin is nuts. – Reported comments of Thatcher aide at suggestion that the former prime minister would meet the US presidential hopeful in London

No. Never. – Former glamour model and Big Brother starlet Imogen Thomas on the likelihood of dating a footballer again