When the gardaí respond, I hope people don't get weak-kneed. - Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, after the fatal shooting of armed raiders by gardaí in Dublin
These girls were all born here, they were baptised here, went to school, got their Holy Communion and were confirmed here. They went to Mass in the same churches as the local community each week. Now they'll make their final journey from here as well.
- Parish priest of Rosnaree, Co Meath, Fr John Brogan, following the death of five schoolgirls in a bus crash
Do not answer the wrong question. - French president Jacques Chirac urges the electorate not to reject the EU constitution as a way of punishing his government
More Tellytubby than Zen.
- Gardener Diarmuid Gavin says the children's television programme inspired the garden space he unveiled at the Chelsea Flower Show
We're here fighting for British, Irish and French seafarers and their right to support a family and pay a mortgage, as has been the long-stand. - Tony Ayton of Siptu as protesters at the French port of Cherbourg prevent an Irish ferry from docking
Simply stating that the Hill of Tara and the complex or association of monuments and sacred spaces in its surroundings constitute an archaeological landscape does not define that landscape or allow for its delimiting on a map. - The opinion of Brian Duffy, the Government's chief archaeologist, in documents released this week