He will be missed as a talented, innovative professional who brought pleasant, relaxed enjoyment to many thousands of people. Ar dheis De go raibh a anam.
- Former taoiseach Charles Haughey on Dermot Morgan
I will miss his mischief, generosity and five-a-side skills.
- Morgan's Father Ted co-star Ardal O'Hanlon
Dermot Morgan had a very special place in Irish political life. He was probably the foremost political satirist of our time . . . It was ironic that a man who had to go abroad to earn a livelihood often referred to the fact that his own famous programme here on radio, Scrap Saturday, was shelved because of political pressure on RTE.
- Austin Deasy (FG), in the Dail
In this anniversary year of 1798 it is ironic that we are being asked by the Government to dilute yet again the degree of sovereignty that we have in the 26 counties.
- Caoimhghin O Caolain TD of Sinn Fein on the Amsterdam Treaty
These two men . . . in a sense symbolised the future in Northern Ireland and these gunmen - in the evil atrocity they committed - symbolised the past.
- Mr Tony Blair on the Poyntzpass murders
You have to laugh. If you are tough they will remove any vestige of femininity and if they detect any femininity they will conclude you do not have the balls for the job.
- RTE's director of radio, Helen Shaw, on the reaction to her appointment
I wrote it because I wanted to write something that I would want to read. I've been very influenced by Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Ross Macdonald. That type of writing struck a chord. It never occurred to me to write anything else. The book has been in my head for years.
- Irish freelance journalist John Connolly, whose first novel, Every Dead Thing, has earned him close to £1 million
The United States clearly has stated, and the President has so stated, that any reneging on the commitments Iraq has acknowledged will lead to severest consequences, which very clearly means military action.
- White House spokesman, Mike McCurry, in a warning over the agreement on weapons inspections
I refuse and will fight . . . against the idea that any entity in the world can change or replace the government of any other country. Only the people of the country can make changes in its leadership.
- King Hussein of Jordan, who has urged dialogue between Baghdad and Washington
That was the first attempt to kill me by a mad woman.
- Sir Edward Heath, on revisiting the spot in Brussels where he was spattered with ink as he arrived to sign Britain into the Common Market 26 years ago
To start with I think he was just playing, but once he realised how nice it tasted it got more serious.
- British circus worker Nigel Wesson describing the incident in which a tiger ate part of his arm. Mr Wesson is now recovering
Mr Lowry had pledged that he would "go through the semi-states like a dose of salts". Perhaps we were the first victims.
- Former CIE board director, Kay Mulrooney, who was sacked on the recommendation of former minister Michael Lowry, after she received a Government apology in the High Court over her dismissal
This shows us the moon is basically right there as a stepping stone, and calling to us. I used to say in my talks that if God had wanted humanity to go into space, he or she would have given us a moon. And they did.
- Rick Tumlinson of the Space Frontier Foundation in New York, on the discovery of a store of frozen water on the moon