Future generations . . . will look back and wonder what all the fuss was about.The Minister for Health, Mr Martin, dismisses publican predictions that a ban on smoking in bars will lead to heavy job losses
The shortfall and payment of tax did not involve or arise from the use by me of any undisclosed bank accounts or records
Judge Alan Mahon, who sits on the planning tribunal, as it emerges that he reached a settlement with the Revenue Commissioners in the early 1990s
I said to him: "When is this going to stop?" I wasn't happy with the man. This was getting on my nerves. He was coming more often than I wanted to see him.
Builder Seamus Ross says he paid politician Liam Lawlor to have the postal address of a Dublin development changed from Clondalkin to Lucan
Everybody has to be more vigilant, both the individual and at a community level. We have to make the shift that drunkenness is not acceptable.
National alcohol policy adviser, Dr Ann Hope, as a study reveals the Republic has one of the worst binge-drinking problems in Europe
I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor of California
They don't love the game, they don't love the team.
Soccer legend Pele on the mindset of players who have brought the game into disrepute
We think it is kind of a quarrel in a holy family, and sooner or later it will heal.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says the rift between the US and western Europe will be resolved
He just has a love for animals. There is nothing wrong with that.
Cynthia Yates, of New York, on why a Bengal tiger and alligator were found in her brother Antoine's Harlem apartment
It was quite something. My wife saw it, too. At first I thought it was her with one of the kids until I reached over and I realised that she was still in bed with me.
Singer Sting says that he and his wife saw the ghosts of a woman and child in their bedroom
Without any pity, they made me half-dead, and my legs became numb. Under such severe pain and torture, I confessed that I had put up the posters.
A letter by Nyima Drapka, a Tibetan monk who died in hospital after allegedly being beaten in Chinese custody
The new millennium is already lashed by the winds of war and stained with blood in so many regions of the world.
Pope John Paul II
I didn't want the baby to be brought to jail, but she needs to be with her mother, and psychologically her mother needs her as well.
Terry McMahon brings his daughter, to Mountjoy Prison where her mother, Lisa Carroll, was jailed for her part in anti-refuse charge protests in Dublin
There is no way you can make an omelette without breaking an egg.
A spokesman for Iarnród Éireann, which is closing southbound DART lines in Dublin at weekends for repairs
I feel sheer pride when I look at them and I will shed a tear when they go. It will be emotional.
Former soccer star George Best auctions his footballer of the year awards
Overcoming my dad telling me that I would never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today.
U2 singer Bono
