This will be met with a massive campaign of opposition from Donegal to Wexford, from Kerry right back to Dublin. – Socialist Party TD Joe Higgins opposing the proposed €100 household charge
I always thought that Kerry people understood that there's nothing free in this world, that when you turn on the tap, somebody's got to pay to put the water in there in the first place. – Taoiseach Enda Kenny, responding to Mr Higgins in the Dáil
People in Kerry, Mayo and Dublin understand that nothing is free because they pay for it already. – Mr Higgins
The change that will take place between now and the year 2020 – just eight years away – will be enormous. I am more and more convinced that they will be the most challenging years that the diocese has had to face since Catholic Emancipation. – Archbishop Diarmuid Martin on the challenges facing Dublin diocese, after a report found weekly Mass attendance is down to 14 per cent in Dublin
We knew this day would come. We've known it for some time. But still there is something profound about the end of a war that has lasted so long. It's harder to end a war than begin one. Everything that American troops have done in Iraq – all the fighting, all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering – all of it has landed to this moment of success. – US president Barack Obama as the last American troops leave Iraq