The sterling service of the past and present members of the RUC is being subverted by Patten and as a matter of principle I will not be serving under his new scheme of things.
- Det Chief Supt Eric Anderson, the officer heading the Omagh bomb investigation
I recommend Catholics to join the police and to try to ensure that the rights named in the European Convention on Human Rights are available to all citizens.
- Monsignor Denis Faul
I will not tolerate views that are contrary to the collective responsibility of Government.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, on the deregulation of the taxi industry
We're not going back.
- Taxi-drivers after their meeting in the National Stadium where it was decided not to return to work
The Minister is off on a Mexican siesta, leaving utter chaos in the taxi industry in his wake.
- Mr Joe Higgins, Socialist Party, of Mr Robert Molloy
It's the poshest charity shop I've ever been in.
- Sir Elton John, opening a charity sale of his cast-offs
We are not against the teachers. But we do want our constitutional right for our children, which is to be educated.
- Ms Janice Murray, member of the Catholic Schools Parents' Association, on why she sent her child to school in defiance of the teachers' action
What is he, 13 or 11? Perhaps I could play his nanny.
- Bond girl Sophie Marceau, of Leonardo DiCaprio, who has said he would like to work with her
I think it's over. It should be over. And maybe that's the important word "should" . . . Well, it's over, and we have a winner, and it's time to move on.
- Mr Bob Crawford, member of the Florida State Election Canvassing Commission
After Broadway, success had gone to my head. I needed to come here and get my hand slapped by an English nanny.
- American actor Christopher Plummer, who played Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music
Please let me stay in Ireland with my two kids.
- Ms Ebi Ojoh, a Nigerian woman facing deportation, at a rally in support of her
If killing cows is a way to deal with this, then that's what we should do.
- Environmental lawyer Prof Yvonne Scannell, who has proposed shooting cattle as a means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Cows give off large quantities of methane
As your family gets older you need your husband, your partner and your friend. I did not think that this would be taken away from me.
- Mrs Anne McCabe, the widow of Det Garda Jerry McCabe, shot dead in a bank raid in Adare, Co Limerick