A selection of some of the more memorable quotes from the week...
Proper discipline has been lost from the Garda Síochána.
Mr Justice Frederick Morris advocates far-reaching reform of Garda structures.
Judge Morris's findings are perverse. I do not know how he could possibly come to that conclusion. There is absolutely no corroboration.
Det Sgt John White, reacting to Justice Morris's conclusion that he had planted a firearm at a halting site.
Texting, online chat, Bebo - they all involve a style of interaction that is acceptable among young people, but which fails to make the grade in the working world.
Generation Y needs to sharpen up on its business skills, argues Caroline Nash, Ibec assistant director of policy.
I have always argued that my father's refusal to rejoin the front line, described in the court martial as resulting from cowardice, was in fact the result of shell-shock.
Gertrude Harris, whose father Harry Farr was shot by the British as a deserter during the first World War. The UK's Ministry of Defence has announced that soldiers executed at dawn for cowardice, including 26 from Ireland, are to be pardoned.
Part-time work consumes a young person's time and energy and can diminish concentration and performance during school time.
ASTI general secretary John White fears too many school-goers are holding down part-time jobs.
Lean may have hoped this final act of philanthropy may have redeemed her, but my own spiritual beliefs tell me otherwise.
Orla Rooney Mays, a niece of Lean Scully, a prominent Dublin PR consultant who bequeathed €5.5 million to the Edinburgh Festival. She left nothing in her will to her brother, who is being cared for in a centre for people with intellectual disabilities.
The Government is using the taxi industry as a sticking plaster to cover up the inadequacies of the public transport system.
Gus McDonnell, a Dublin taxi driver. Drivers say they will strike during the Ryder Cup unless concerns over a new fare structure are addressed.
In 1972, there were 10,631 shooting incidents recorded, 1,853 devices used, 470 people were killed including 17 police and 131 soldiers, and almost 5,000 people injured. Policing operated in an entirely different environment than it does today
PSNI Deputy Chief Constable Paul Leighton apologises for the delay in the investigation of the abduction and killing of Jean McConville, but says the failure must be seen in the context of the times.
We're seriously considering taking legal action against the government to force them to get the airports back to normal.
Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary expresses dissatisfaction at the UK government's handling of the recent terrorism alert.
If Israel attacks us, it will be Hizbullah that defends us.
Adham Hariri, a resident of south Lebanon, where the Lebanese army has returned after an absence of decades.
Don't disgrace your country.
A headline from a Chinese newspaper. The government has asked the public to brush up on its manners ahead of the Beijing Olympics.
Obesity is the norm globally; and under-nutrition, while still important in a few countries and in targeted populations in many others, is no longer the dominant disease.
The number of overweight people in the world outnumbers the number of hungry, says Barry Popkin of the department of nutrition at the University of North Carolina.
I will never be back.
Mountaineer Terence "Banjo" Bannon after witnessing the loss of four of his party on the notorious K2 summit in the Himalayas.
What is happening in South Africa is a human rights violation that needs leadership from outside of South Africa.
Mark Heywood, of the Aids Law Project in South Africa, says the government of Thabo Mbeki is turning a blind eye to the HIV crisis.
I was with JonBenet when she died. Her death was an accident.
John Mark Karr, an American teacher who has been arrested in connection with the killing in 1996 of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey in Colorado.