I got a bargain. – London antique dealer Richard Peters after paying €110,000 at auction in Durrow for a Chinese vase with a pre-sale estimated value of €100-€150
As leader, John [Gormley] decides when or if he is to leave Cabinet. Could be tomorrow, could be two years' time. – Green Party Senator and Twitterer Dan Boyle on suggestions that the Greens would rotate a replacement minister to Gormley
It will be necessary to invite the parishes to become part of the process financially. – Bishop Denis Brennan suggesting that churchgoers in Ferns help bail out the diocese because of the cost incurred from settling sex abuse cases against priests and also from paying legal fees
The great thing about Michael was that he was a brilliant orator, but his judgment was not very good. – Former British chancellor of the exchequer and deputy leader of the Labour Party Denis Healy on Michael Foot, the Labour leader who died this week aged 96
Late that year [1979], Churchill's two-year affair with Mrs [Soraya] Khashoggi hit the headlines after three police officers were tried at the Old Bailey on blackmail charges and Churchill figured as "Mr X". The tabloids had a field day, the Daily Stardwelling on a 100mph drive along an American freeway with Mrs Khashoggi – referred to by the Telegraphin one of its more unfortunate misprints as Mrs Khashaggi – telling him: "The faster you go, the more I'll take off". – Daily Telegraph obituaryof Winston Churchill, less illustrious grandson of his grandfather with the same name