They lie out sunning themselves like pedigree dogs while they should be on FAS employment schemes like everybody else.
- Fine Gael councillor, Mr John Flannery, on travellers
They are liars. They have graduated from the devil's school. They have destroyed the Act of Union and given the title deeds of Ulster to Dublin on a plate.
- The Rev Ian Paisley con- demning the actions of unionists who support the Belfast Agreement
I apologise for the hurt I have caused people, particularly those families and friends of victims who find it difficult.
- Northern Secretary Dr Mo Mowlam on her decision to allow IRA prisoners to attend the Sinn Fein ardfheis last week
A release of fraudsters from prison to campaign for a Yes vote on the euro would seem highly appropriate
- Tory peer Lord Tebbit, commenting on the day-release of the prisoners
That's the first time I have seen that man that I didn't want to take a swing at him
- Mr Traolaoch Mac Gabain watching David Trimble campaigning for a Yes vote in the Northern referendum
What's the difference between David Trimble and Wolfe Tone? 200 years
- Poster decrying alleged unionist betrayal
Since you are married to a woman 25 years younger than yourself many here are wondering if, like your law partner Bob Dole, you have ever used Viagra?
- President of the National Press Club, Doug Harbrecht, questioning Senator George Mitchell at a reception
I agree with your reaction but the answer is no. And I have a six-month-old son to prove that I don't need it.
- Senator Mitchell's reply
It's the story of an iconoclast. Cahill invented his own world, his own rules and lived by them. He took on the police, the State and the church and beat them with his wit and cunning
- Film-maker John Boorman on his forthcoming film The General about the notorious Dublin criminal Martin Cahill
I'll be having my glass of wine while the lads are struggling up the Wicklow Gap
- Former Tour de France winner Sean Kelly, replying to a question about whether he will miss taking part in the race
We had only been going out for 2 1/2 weeks at the time it hit all the newspapers, but we already knew we were madly in love.
- Emma Noble who got engaged this week to John Major, the former British prime minister's son
People seem endlessly surprised that strong leaders have a strong libido. What's the big deal? Doesn't everyone know they go together?
- Mike Nichols, director of Primary Colors, a political sat- ire about the Clintons
With automatic remission it comes down to about six weeks' imprisonment, which is as devastating to him as a year would be to others. You can imagine the effect on a man of his artistic sensibility
- Solicitor for artist Anthony- Noel Kelly jailed for the theft of human remains from the Royal College of Surgeons which he used in his work
Much as I dislike it, confrontation between us seems inevitable
- Garda Commissioner Pat Byrne on the force's pay dispute
Young people today are not interested in the colour of the uniform or what religion their colleagues belong to.
- Mr John T. Murphy, chair- man of a committee considering the merger of the Catholic Scouts of Ireland and the Scouting Association of Ireland