It is my view that gay people should have the right to marry. I think that is the view of most people in this country. Irish society has moved on considerably on this issue. - Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore expresses support for gay marriage
They are dicing with the reputation of this country, with the reputation of police in this country. They are dicing with justice. - Rama Valayden, defence lawyer in the Michaela McAreavey murder trial, criticises the police who investigated the crime
We have won two Euros now and I'm so happy and proud. But there is a lot more left for this team to achieve. We have a lot of ambition and targets ahead of us. - Spain striker Fernando Torres warns rivals that he and his team-mates are still hungry for success
It has been an absolutely catastrophic month. My own chairman, my own board and all the other agencies involved, we are really, really perturbed at this stage. - Road Safety Authority chief executive on the 25 road fatalities recorded in June, bringing to 96 the numbers killed on the roads in the first half of the year
We have observed a new boson. - Joe Incandela, spokesman for one of the groups involved in experiments at Cern's Large Hadron Collider, announces that the long-sought Higgs particle has probably been found
I wanted them to fully accept what they have done to me and my family, and I wanted them to make some gesture of recompense and provide a meaningful apology. - Rebecca O'Malley on the court apology by the HSE over the misdiagnosis of her breast cancer seven years ago
People need to get less emotional about it all and we can't keep looking back and try and blame everybody for everything all the time. Its not helping business. - Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, on the Libor-rigging scandal in Britain
Scientists have found the Higgs Boson, but the #ulsterbank can't find a cheque I lodged last week! - Twitter user Jonathan Bingham