It is a cause of disappointment to me that a very significant number of people who are arrested by the gardaí under Operation Oak have been admitted to bail. - Major criminals are receiving bail too easily, suggests the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell.
If this guy was as dangerous as he is, and the guards knew there was a threat to his life, why weren't they watching him?
Noel Fitzgerald, whose son, Anthony Campbell, was killed during a gangland assassination of the crime figure Martin "Marlo" Hyland.
The law should not allow Pádraig Nally, the man who took my husband's life, to walk free.
Marie Ward, wife of John Ward, reacts to Pádraig Nally's manslaughter acquittal, in a statement issued on her behalf by the Traveller organisation Pavee Point.
Pádraig, it's all over.
Mr Nally's senior counsel, Brendan Grehan, tells him he is a free man.
There was no conspiracy to murder any of the occupants of the car. This was a tragic accident.
John Stevens, former chief of the Metropolitan Police, who led an official inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
This opens up the fun of hunting to additional people, and I think that's great.
Edmund Kuempel, a Republican state representative in Texas, who has proposed legislation making it legal for blind people to hunt with guns.
If the official version of the Holocaust is thrown into doubt, then the identity and nature of Israel will be thrown into doubt.
Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki, at the opening of a provocative conference on the Holocaust in Tehran.
You could say that I'm a man on a mission, and my mission could be dubbed Operation Restore Trust.
Ban Ki-moon sets out his agenda as the next UN secretary general.
Irish consumers are the real losers as the market will be restored to a virtual monopoly.
Martin O'Rourke, managing director of Bupa Ireland. The health insurer has announced it is to leave the Irish market in a dispute with the State over risk equalisation.
The bangs were so loud, I thought a lorry was after losing its load. It's like Goodfellas or something. No mercy. It's hard to believe.
A resident of the Irish Financial Services Centre, where known criminal Gerard "Batt" Byrne was shot dead this week.
We want the human right to marry extended to us. In this great land at this time we are the only type of human being who don't have the human right to marry the person they love.
Dr Katherine Zappone who, together with her lesbian partner Dr Ann Louise Gilligan, unsuccessfully petitioned the High Court to have their Canadian marriage recognised by the State.
I think it is perfectly natural that the police should come and talk to me.
Tony Blair, the first serving British prime minister to be questioned by police during a criminal investigation. He was interviewed as part of the cash-for-honours inquiry in the UK.
We know who opened fire and they will be punished hard. From now on they will never relax, and they will never sleep tight in their homes.
Hamas leader and Palestinian foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar as gun battles break out between Hamas and the rival Fatah organisation.
They executed him twice. He was still conscious when they put in the chemicals that burn the internal organs. It's exactly like being burned at the stake from the inside.
Mark Elliot, director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, after convicted murderer Angel Nieve Diaz takes more than a hour and a half to die in a Florida prison.