I don't think Mary Harney did that.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, queried on Monday about the PDs' assertion that Ms Harney had asked him twice to put his involvement in the Sheedy case on public record
In my discussions with the Tanaiste, Mary Harney TD, we agreed that the fact of my representations in this case needed to be made public. It was agreed that this would be done in the Dail last week . . . I accept that I was at fault in not finding some way of informing the Dail of my representations.
- Mr Ahern, on Tuesday
I don't know about that.
- Ms Harney, asked if she believed the Government would run for another three years
Will the Taoiseach put Mr Burke on a prison visiting committee?
- Pat Rabbitte, on a visit by the former Fianna Fail councillor Joe Burke to Philip Sheedy at Shelton Abbey
I cannot help further your joint committee in relation to these matters. The Constitution does not permit me to do so.
- Former Supreme Court judge, Hugh O'Flaherty, on the Oireachtas committee which has been seeking to inquire into his actions in the Sheedy affair
It's good to be free. I hope that God will be with this country and its people.
- One of the three freed US servicemen, Steven Gonzales (22), in Belgrade
I read NATO's response as the idolatry of might. I read it in some sense as the arrogance of power.
- The Rev Jesse Jackson, criticising the continuation of the bombing after the release of the servicemen
We are not only not going to stop the bombing. We are going to intensify the bombing.
- US Defence Secretary, William Cohen
People are not collateral damage.
- Mrs Mary Robinson
There is hope for a peaceful settlement. Everything is possible in our world.
- Viktor Chernnomyrdin, on his visit to Washington
Do you know what I am? I am successful. Destroy me and you destroy the British film industry. Keep me going and I'm the biggest star you've got. I'm Mr England.
- the actor Oliver Reed, who has died
We will continue to support your just cause in every way we can.
- The Taoiseach to the Palestinian Authority President, Yasser Arafat, who was in Dublin this week seeking Government support for the Middle East peace process
The British never get put down by these things. People are determined to rebuild and carry on.
- Prince Charles, after visiting the scene of the Soho nail- bombing
In fact I have never flown with them. You could say I am a born-again Virgin.
- TV personality Gay Byrne, on joining the board of Virgin Express Ireland
When I think about what's been going on in America [the Denver killings], when you know of what's been going on in Kosovo, we seem at the end of our millennium to be sinking back to a kind of barbarianism.
- Cardinal Basil Hume
There's nothing when the work stops. Every weekend I start crying. I just want some love in my life.
- Former Spice Girl Geri Haliwell
Many low-paid workers are sick and tired of the parade of vulgar consumption while the quality of their own lives is still a struggle for survival.
- Pat Rabbitte, Labour TD