Quote unquote: she said, he said . . .

"I have absolutely no reason to believe there will be any change in my position,"

"I have absolutely no reason to believe there will be any change in my position,"

Síle de Valera, February 7th, 2006.

"There's been a tradition over a long number of years in Fianna Fáil governments, along with our colleagues in the Progressive Democrats, if somebody is not running in the next election and they hold a ministerial office that somewhere before the election they bow out and give somebody else a chance," Bertie Ahern, February 17th, 2006.

"I have no further comment to make at all," Síle de Valera, February 17th, 2006.

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