Quotes of the week
I would love to know what the Plan B is. I see [a rejection] as very chaotic, at a time when we don't need chaos. - Green Minister Eamon Ryan says rejecting the Lisbon Treaty would not be well received in the EU and would damage Ireland's standing there.
There is an urgent need for the Muslim community here to have mortgages and other financial services that do not drive them to break their Islamic teachings. - Ali Selim, an Islamic theologian, says Ireland requires sharia-compliant financial services to cater for its growing Muslim population.
I'm a human being. I understand one side as much as the other. Sides don't matter to me. It is all about human beings, people in an extraordinary situation. - Steve McQueen, director of the film Hunger, about Bobby Sands and the hunger strikers, which won a prestigious award at Cannes.
We cannot ignore that, in fact, the state sometimes acted illegally. If we are to move out of the past in a healthy way, then the state itself needs to acknowledge its full and complex role in the last 40 years. - The Eames-Bradley consultative group on the past says agents of the British state acted outside the law during the Troubles.
While I am resigning, I firmly hold the view that I have always acted honourably and in what I believe to be the best interests of the company and all its shareholders. - DCC founder Jim Flavin resigns as its executive chairman.