THIS WEEK THEY SAID

It would completely undermine the confidence of customers generally in Anglo Irish Bank

It would completely undermine the confidence of customers generally in Anglo Irish Bank.
– Tánaiste Mary Coughlan on why it would be wrong to name Anglo's golden circle 10.

€451 million.

– The amount Anglo lent the 10 to buy its own shares, as disclosed yesterday in the accounts.

We are now fighting for our economic future.

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– Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

Can he confirm that no member of his Cabinet was in any way involved in the decision of a new golden circle? The Galway tent may be gone but its spirit seems to be alive and well.

– Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny querying Taoiseach Brian Cowen.

I had no indication and no involvement in names of any description.

– Brian Cowen replies.

The guards were wonderful, they really were super and thank God we were very well looked after.

– Julien Flynn pays tribute to the two gardaí who rescued him, his wife and three of their four children when an armed so-called tiger kidnap gang attacked them in their Galway home last Sunday night.

My regret for what I have subjected you to does not decrease but instead I feel nothing but increasing shame.

– Alleged pyramid scheme operator Breifne O’Brien in an e-mail to his brother-in-law last December.

The one thing Jack desired again and again was to be reconciled with those friends with whom he’d fallen out.

– Mgr Patrick Finn at the funeral of playwright Hugh Leonard.