I came here to the tribunal to get the truth, warts and all, and if I did wrong I am ready to take my place in the queue to pay for it. I am here warts and all. That's all I want.
- Mr James Gogarty, who gave evidence to the Flood tribunal this week about the Murphy group of companies
Dear old Mr Gogarty will give his evidence, be treated nicely and then totter off.
- Colm Allen SC
My biggest regret in life was that I spent more time trying to make money than I did with Annie. Now that she's gone I see what's really important.
- John McCarrick on his daughter, who has been missing for six years
I blame Gaynor for the split because she put her talons into a married man with children.
- Margaret Cook, first wife of the British Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook
Would You Sleep With This Man?
- British Sun headline refer- ring to Robin Cook
966 WOULD sleep with Robin Cook (NO MINISTER - WE WON'T GIVE YOU THEIR PHONE NOs)
- Result of the Sun's poll on its front page the next day. 7,303 Sun readers said they wouldn't go to bed with him
The Progressive Democrat philosophy is about developing society in the way that society itself wishes to develop, by providing society with the resources to develop itself in the way that it sees fit.
- Feilim Clear, chairman of the Young Progressive Democrats, in a letter to The Irish Times
I'm interested in them [guilt, sin and religion] as themes - I'm not obsessed. I'm interested in people who struggle with these things. But I have never suffered from them myself. I was never personally convinced by religion.
- The writer Brian Moore, who died this week
I think the man upstairs just had a good plan. Go and enjoy yourselves because I'm taking those three there.
- Shane Boyle, whose parents and sister died in a fire at their house in Co Down, the scene of a party hours before the blaze
It is home to her and she loves it nevertheless. But the building is in dire need of refurbishment and the only way she can be got out of it is by court order.
- Judge Devally of the Dublin Circuit Civil Court, ordering Ms Jane Bardin (79) to quit her life-long residence in a first- floor city centre apartment in Capel Street
I think the calendar, along with the thinly veiled threats recently issued through Republican News, demonstrates that the IRA is still wedded to violence.
- UUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson, on the publication of an IRA 1999 calendar depicting a different image of terrorism and war on every page
It's great news, isn't it . . . It's nice.
- Queen Elizabeth on the engagement of her youngest son
There was no match. Not even close.
- Time Magazine's Internet website on DNA tests that clear President Clinton of fathering a boy of 13
If I had got on top of him, which is of course my favourite position, I would have suffocated him as he's rather a slender fellow.
- Actress Miriam Margolyes about Leonardo DiCaprio
I am a very silly old man.
- Joseph Freer (76), a pensioner convicted for importing heroin
People sleeping on mattresses in the street in broad daylight is illegal [and gardai] should enforce the law on obstructing the pavement.
- Chief executive of Dublin Tourism Frank Magee on obstacles to the continuation of the city's tourism boom
