"I hear it's going to rain on Saturday, which is just what I want. No gardening no taking the kids out somewhere. I'm going to have couple of pints at lunchtime, take a big list of the constituencies, a half pack of lager and another in the fridge for emergencies, then I'm bringing the armchair into the bedroom and I'm going to watch it on the small telly until it's over. The wife is very welcome to join me for any or all of it, but her heart isn't it. I've a fiver on Fianna Fail having an outright. Not necessarily what I want - I'm 40, I've seen Fianna Fail in action before - but a bet's a bet."
"We're going on holidays on Saturday morning, but I said to my friend, what's she going on about, we're not going to miss anything, it's going to be a hung parliament like everyone knows it's going to be, and by the time we get back in a week's time it'll all be there for us, all the wondering who's going to get into bed with who. More talk of going to bed with people in politics than there will be on the holiday. I'm very sorry to say.
"I'm fed up with the lot of them ... nothing's going to change. I'll tell you how I'm going to spend Saturday. I'm going to get up early and take a bus to the shopping centre where I've worked every Saturday for the past 18 months. My husband will look after the kids for the day. Then at 6 p.m., when the place closes, I'll go to this woman's house and do four body waves privately at £8 each, and then I'll get home wrecked at about 10 p.m. and I won't care who won, I tell, you that for nothing."
"I'm going to listen to it all on the radio. I'll start painting my flat at 3 p.m. when Sean O'Rourke and Rodney Rice open up in the studio and I'll go on until the country's settled and the flat looks respectable. There's no need for pictures I mean, we all know what they look like by now or we shouldn't be bothering with it at all.
"You get very attached to the people on the radio, you know is Myles getting impatient, what will Joe Duffy produce next?... And they're right, it is faster, because they don't have as much technology to worry about, they don't have to worry about what camera to look at.
"I'd say by the small hours on Sunday we'll have a Rainbow Coalition and a magnolia coloured flat and we'll be in great shape." "I couldn't care less about any of it. Crowd of crooks the lot of them in it for what they can get. Seriously now do you believe any of it, better future and looking forward, time for leadership, putting people first?
"Have sense. Join the real world. I'm going out to a barbecue party, there's going to be normal people there. None of them would know a Celtic Tiger if it came in and licked the faces off them. You media people hate to believe this but that's how most of the country feels."
"My grandfather's dead upset that people are losing the old values; it's got to do with if you're for Fine Gael then you have to hate Fianna Fail with a passion and vice versa and you have to refer to the other crowd as if they were the devil himself.
"There's no talking to him about the future and what each party might actually do. He thinks they can't and won't do anything if they're the other crowd. He took us all to see the film Michael Collins and said now did we understand and honestly, we didn't. Not a bit."
"What'll I be doing? I'll be stuck into it, that's what. And I have a rake of frozen pizzas and the microwave at the ready so that's all anyone will get in our house until it's over."
I'M not going to vote. Now, I see you don't like that but I tell you this, there's no point in my voting. I don't know anything about any of them, it would be hypocritical my going down there and putting an X or a list of numbers. I'd only be voting for whether I liked their faces or the way they do their hair or something. It's more honest to stay out of it altogether.
"Do you know what really gets up my nose? All those islanders bellyaching about having to vote two days before the rest of us. Well, come on. It's their choice to live out in those places arrangements are made for them and they still have a grouse. They might not be ready, they say. Why can't they be ready? Why can't they make up their minds what they want, for heaven's sake? What they really like is holding everyone up for days so that the thing can drag on for ever."
"We have a great friend who might now she just might get in. So we'll go with her to the count. If she has a chance at all it will only be after a lot of transfers so we'll be there for hours.
"It's the first time to be so close to it. I can't tell you how exciting it is. I only wish I had the right words in case she doesn't make it, something encouraging and hopeful. But there, I'm not the stuff of politics at all: I shouldn't be thinking like that, I should be concentrating on her taking her seat in the Dail."
"There's three great movies on Sky and the Movie Channel on Saturday night, including Casino, and if anyone asks me to look at a crowd of highly paid so called experts sounding off for hour after hour, they'd have a job to make me answer them politely."
"It's only woodners that don't care how their country is going to be run. And they're eejits as well if they don't watch it. It's great fun seeing them all losing their cool and getting the result wrong and interrupting everyone - I wouldn't miss it for anything."