Someone has cost the state about £500 million by not reading these letters. Private detective Billy Flynn, who wrote to then-minister for justice, Nora Owen, alerting her to irregularities in the Garda investigation into the death of Donegal cattle dealer Richie Barron.
It is not set in stone and it was never said that it was set in stone.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says Michael McDowell's plans for cafe bars are by no means certain to go ahead.
Candidates are expected to write about situations that reflect the reality of their daily lives.
The State Exams Commission defends the inclusion of a Junior Certificate English question about "travelling in a school bus". The question caused distress at the Co Meath school which lost five students in a road accident last month.
When everybody else has forgotten Crazy Frog I'll have a permanent reminder.
Mark Richard, a British demolition worker, has had the infuriating ringtone frog tattooed on his back.
The Dutch have constructed a fantasy narrative about Srebrenica - the idea that, at the expense of some men, we saved thousands of women and children.
Prof Mient Jan Faber, former director of the Dutch Interchurch Council for Peace. UN peacekeepers from the Netherlands are accused in a Dutch court of standing aside as Serbs butchered Bosnians in a massacre at Srebrenica in 1995.
Fairytale became a horror movie. But with the same determination that helped her win Olympic gold medals, she went back to college as a mature student.
Erik de Bruin nominates his wife, Olympic swimmer Michelle de Bruin, as Ireland's greatest woman, in a letter to RTÉ Radio's Marian Finucane Show.
See no evil, hear no evil and you can have a great career and maybe even go off and become Taoiseach.
John Gormley, Green Party health spokesman, as Government members of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children are accused of toning down a report on illegal nursing home charges.
They were taking people from their homes. We don't know where they've been put. Their aim is to destroy any meaningful opposition.
Ethiopian opposition leader Berhanu Hega as the government clamps down violently on political dissent.
Young people are capable of doing two things and you can underestimate their capacity. Just because you go to a disco or a rave doesn't mean you can't write poetry.
Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is asked if young people were being lost to poetry because they would rather write pop lyrics.
He did demonstrate bizarre behaviour, but that's not illegal.
Jayson Ahern, assistant commissioner for field operations for US customs and border protection, after police allowed a man with a blood-stained chainsaw cross from Canada. He was later named as the chief suspect in the murder of two men in his home town.
It was an act of God. I'm tired, I'm frustrated and I'm disappointed big time, but there's nothing you can do.
Keith Powell (32), from Ballyfermot, one of the hundreds of Ireland supporters prevented by fog from reaching the Faroe Islands for the team's crucial World Cup qualifying match.
We must live in hope.
Archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu of Cape Town, who visited Ireland this week, says the jury is still out on Pope Benedict XVI.
This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No 1 is spectacularly stupid.
Russell Crowe, actor, apologises for throwing a phone in a New York Hotel.
The variety of names for urban tribes is a sign of the fear people seem to have for them.
Jeremy Butterfield, editor-in-chief of the Collins English Dictionary, which has included "chav", "skanger" and "langer" in its latest edition.
The first words she said to me were, "I don't like you", and the last thing she said to me, when I called her after she won her Oscar, was "You'll never catch me now".
Jane Fonda, on working with Katharine Hepburn.