ThisWeekTheySaid
We're 100 per cent behind them. If there was a percentage higher than that we'd be there.
- Terry Clancy, spokesman for the Shell To Sea environmental group, after five men are jailed for contempt of court
Any time we raised issues about this project we were told not to be negative.
- Cllr Pádraic Connelly of Galway City Council after a contractor hired to carry out a €9 million revamp of Eyre Square quit the project
After the last incident, I compared the managerial skills of those who run Sellafield to those of Homer Simpson. Well, maybe I was doing Homer a disservice.
- Minister for the Environment Dick Roche comments as a report notes "operational complacency" among staff at the British nuclear facility
Someone has to be brave enough in the All Blacks camp to say: 'Brian, we're sorry for what happened.'
- Stu Wilson, former All Blacks wing, says New Zealand owes Brian O'Driscoll an apology for the tackle that ended his Lions tour
Oh no! We had delusions of grandeur from an early stage.
- Bono, after it is suggested to him that U2 became interested in their image only in the late 1980s. Band members were in court this week, accusing a former stylist of stealing leather trousers and an "iconic" hat
Giving our customers an opportunity to invest in the airline is something I would support.
- Chairman of Aer Lingus John Sharman says that, should the airline float on the stock exchange, members of the public ought to be allowed acquire a stake
She used to tell school friends about it when she was a girl, but no one believed her.
- A resident in Dalkey, Co Dublin, after a woman tells the Garda that the body of a baby she had at the age of 14 is buried in the garden of a house
Immigration and asylum laws and policies do not properly guard against or address violence in the family occurring while in the Irish State against many migrant women.
- Amnesty International says not enough is being done to protect minorities from domestic violence
We publish classics. I'm afraid this one does not make it.
- Alessandro Gallenzi on his decision not to publish Saddam Hussein's new novel, Get Out Of Here, Curse You!