Some choice words from Gogarty's time at the tribunal

Much of what was said at and about the Flood tribunal was captured in sound-bites by Mr James Gogarty and others. Below is a selection of what was said during his time in the witness box:

"I'm going out to your house and I'll break every fucking bone in your body and then I'll kick the fucking shite out of you and when I'm finished with you, you won't have a roof over your head and I'll put a stop to you and your legal hassles."

- Mr Gogarty's account of Mr Joe Murphy jnr's words during the alleged late night phone call which Mr Gogarty says led ultimately to the setting up of the Flood tribunal.

"From the dock? Put me in the dock, that's where they want me, in the dock. Oh Jesus, oh Mother of God."

- Mr Gogarty after Mr Cooney complained of his long rambling speeches "from the dock".

"You'll go to the Bar Council and I'll go to Mountjoy."

Mr Gogarty to Mr Garrett Cooney after Mr Cooney had returned to the tribunal following a disagreement with Mr Justice Flood in which he sought the advice of the Bar Council.

"I don't have a bank account in the Isle of Man."

- Mr George Redmond in a Sunday newspaper interview before he was stopped at Dublin airport with £300,000 in cash and cheques after stepping off a flight from the Isle of Man.

"I'm looking at you. I've a pain in my face looking at you."

- Mr James Gogarty after being told to look at the lawyers.

"Mr [Frank] Callanan, with the greatest respect sir, is beginning to jump up and down with the frequency one would normally associate with the bloomers of members of the oldest profession."

- Mr Colm Allen SC for the Baileys, expressing his frustration at interruptions during his cross- examination of Mr Gogarty.

"It was that crowd. They called what they called shareholders' meetings to remove me from my directorships and they had already injuncted Senior, or threatened to injunct him, and the whole bloody lot. It's all there. Sure read The Irish Times."

- Mr Gogarty to Mr Harris.

"It is full of that stuff we are going through here."

- Mr Gogarty on the capacity of a sewage pipe.

"Well you are a liar, in your own language and in [Mr Colm] Allen's language."

- Mr Gogarty to Mr Brian Leonard SC, counsel for former JMSE executive Mr Gerry Downes.

"I'm bloody sure he did and he drank half the bloody theatre, so he did, when he was doing it."

- Mr Gogarty on being sure that Mr Downes kept Mr Redmond in theatre tickets.

"I'm not going to question Mr Redmond's credibility at this stage, Jesus I'd be in right trouble."

- Mr Gogarty on being told that Mr Redmond's evidence con- tradicted his.

"His evidence is finished now. I don't know if I'll be here every day from now on. If the weather keeps up I might go swimming."

- Mr Peter Zambra, who attended most days of the tribunal and was on RTE's Late Late Show, describing Mr Gogarty as "a hero".