A selection of quotes from around the world
It would have been very unfortunate if it had been sold to someone who was very wealthy and wanted it completely and utterly private.
Edward Walsh, new owner of Lissadell, former home of Countess Markievicz
He felt he should show a good example.
A spokesman for the Minister for Transport, Mr Brennan, who passed his driving test this week
The notion that individual members of the journalists' profession feel it is their God-given right to bribe gardaí to break the criminal law and to give them information which they are prohibited from giving them is wholly unacceptable.
Minister for Justice, Mr McDowell
I have long thought that the families of these people who were killed and those whose remains were buried suffered a dreadful injustice.
Sinn Féin president, Mr Gerry Adams, denies he knew of the IRA's abduction and murder of Jean McConville 31 years ago. A body believed to be that of the mother of 10 was found last week
It is a patriotic duty not to litter.
Minister for the Environment, Mr Cullen
They know such a country reborn would spell an end to their hopes of persuading the Arab world down the path of extremism.
Tony Blair sends a message to those responsible for the attacks on UN targets in Iraq
This guy owes me bacon now . . . because you cannot have eggs without bacon.
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, running for governor of California, after being pelted with an egg on the hustings
This Government seems to understand nothing about pain and justice. They allowed this happen in the hep C case and now it's us.
Christine Buckley of the Aislinn group, which represents victims of institutional abuse, on the resignation of Ms Justice Laffoy from the commission bearing her name
The "road map" is dead, but only because of Israeli military aggression in recent weeks.
Yasser Arafat, Palestinian leader, says Israel has ruined the Middle East peace process
It could not be legally proven that the defendant Abu Bakar Bashir is the emir [leader] of the Jemaah Islamiah.
Muhammad Saleh, chief judge in the treason trial of the Muslim cleric jailed for four years by an Indonesian court. Prosecutors claimed he was the leader of a terrorist group linked to al-Qaeda