This is a national emergency.
- The Minister for Agriculture, Mr Walsh, talking about the need to keep foot-and-mouth disease out of this island
It is now my belief that we are looking at an outbreak of this disease in Northern Ireland.
- Ms Brid Rodgers, NI Agriculture Minister, breaking the news that foot-and-mouth disease had spread to Northern Ireland
It is most unhelpful and treasonous for the media to have headlines like "It is here". Over 60 countries wanted to ban our products because of extremely negative headlines.
- Mr Walsh on the threat to exports posed by foot-and-mouth
What was that all about?
- Reported remark by President George W. Bush to an aide after his meeting with Mr Tony Blair
I am asking you as a human being to please consider my request to go back to John of God's or somewhere else less secure soon. My life is being destroyed.
- An extract from the letter which Kim O'Donovan (15) wrote to a High Court judge four months before her death
The cocaine was found in two of the 24 pipe fragments examined, which is really quite remarkable.
- Dr Francis Thackeray, a palaeontologist, speaking about clay pipe fragments excavated from William Shakespeare's home
To that extent, Mr Chairman, I was deficient in carrying out my paperwork.
- Former Fianna Fail minister Mr Ray Burke admitting he broke the law when he ignored exchange control regulations
There's a train coming.
- Mr Gary Hart, the Land-Rover driver in north Yorkshire who made a 999 call before a train hit his vehicle and then a freight train, killing up to 13 people
If she was the best financial adviser in the country, I would not like to see the worst.
- Retired farmer Mr James Howard speaking about Ms Beverley Cooper-Flynn, during her High Court libel action against him and RTE
Our association is absolutely livid.
- Mr Gerry Lawler, spokesman for the Irish Cigarette Machine Operators' Association, reacting to news that the Health Minister, Mr Martin, plans to ban cigarette vending machines
Dopes sent down.
- Headline in the Star newspaper telling how drug-smugglers took photographs of themselves sitting on a £15 million cannabis shipment bound for Ireland. They were jailed for 25 years
Garda Noel Coughlan set up an identity parade, somewhat akin to those held in Garda stations in relation to criminal cases involving people, and the boy's grandmother identified a dog.
- Barrister John Nolan, explaining how two Jack Russell dogs were placed in a Garda identity parade to establish which one attacked a six-year-old boy
Travellers have lived in terrible conditions and are even afraid to go to doctors because, well, doctors are members of the settled community.
- Mr Jim O'Brien, a Traveller, speaking about the fact that infants from the Travelling community are three times more likely to die than children from settled families
What's your brother up to these days?
- Prince Charles, speaking to Bakar bin Laden about his brother, the alleged Middle East terrorist Osama bin Laden