His work often pitched him into a place of some discomfort, not only for himself but for the reader also. His was a challenging voice yet not without compassion, a voice that spoke of his great and honest love for his country and its people.
President Mary McAleese pays tribute to writer John McGahern.
A fly-past shooting.
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern describes the gangland shoot-out on Dublin's M50 motorway last weekend.
It was made clear to me that my role was to 'break' the persons to be interviewed for the purpose of corroborating the suspicions of An Garda Síochána.
Det Sgt John White tells the Morris tribunal he mistreated two suspects during an investigation into the death of Richie Barron in Donegal.
I believe, regardless of who had won in the elections, the Zionist position . . . is hostile toward Palestinian rights and insists on liquidating it and wiping it out.
Khaled Mashaal, a Hamas leader, is unmoved by the strong performance of the centrist Kadima party in Israel's general election.
The worst people are doing the worst driving because nobody is there to catch them.
Gay Byrne, who has been appointed chairman of the Road Safety Authority, says stricter Garda enforcement is needed to cut down on road deaths.
We have to mobilise all the resources that are available from the voluntary sector, in the public system and in the private system to make sure that nobody is left overnight on a trolley
Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney says accident and emergency overcrowding is a "national emergency".
Most of Europe is up around 100 but in Ireland the IQ is just a little bit depressed.
Prof Richard Lynn, a former Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) psychologist and professor emeritus of the University of Ulster, says that, with an IQ average of 96, the Irish are the dullards of Europe.
We got some of them back and we are appealing to people who have wedding dresses which are clearly not their wedding dresses: would they for God's sake return them.
Eugene Carey, a solicitor acting on behalf of The Wedding Dress Ltd, a Cork boutique, which shut unexpectedly last week. Twenty-five dresses were taken from its warehouse on Thursday by brides who panicked.
Recently, if you are from Nigeria you face a massive uphill battle, especially if you have no contacts with political clout.
Director of the Irish Refugee Council Peter O'Mahony outlines the plight of Nigerian asylum seekers.
I tried to tell the crew but it was too late to do anything because the descent was almost over. It was hilarious. Soldiers started running towards the aircraft waving at us and laughing.
Johnny Borrow, from Derry, a passenger on a Ryanair flight which accidentally landed on an army runway close to the City of Derry airport.
I am not a fan of a democracy of ultimatums.
Jacques Chirac, the French president, says the government will not give in to protests over controversial new employment laws.