They're not exactly the stuff of Miss Ecuador.
- Pat Kenny debates the merits of RTE's weather presenters
Where do you go after this? Do you get a Spice Girl?
- The Booker Prize's Martyn Goff on learning that Jerry Hall is a judge for the Whitbread Prize
If conditions are good we'll float. If not, we won't.
- Mary O'Rourke announces the sale of Aer Lingus
I don't believe it has opened the floodgates.
- Soccer agent on Roy Keane's massive pay rise
Do I agree with it? No, I do not.
- Former British Home Secretary Michael Howard attacks the European ruling that Jamie Bulger's killers did not get a fair trial
This is the age of miracles. This is the age of lifting shadows. - The President, Mrs McAleese, in her Dail address
This is a day quite unlike any other.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern, at the inauguration of the North-South Council
For the first time in years, families are preparing for Christmas with a real sense of hope and optimism that children today will have a better future than the past we are seeking to put behind us.
- The British Prime Minis- ter, Mr Tony Blair, on the inauguration of the council
The establishment of the council is an essential part of the institutional architecture provided for in the Good Friday agreement which will give expression to all the relationships and traditions on this island.
- The Taoiseach, Mr Ahern
Let us learn from the past and use our combined strengths to build a better future for all our peoples. We all have more in common to unite us than we have in division to divide us.
- The North's First Minister, Mr David Trimble
If that's a milestone, so be it.
- Tony Blair on his public handshake with the North's health minister, Bairbre de Brun
It is very rare for us to have network problems like these. To have two such events is almost unheard of.
- Eircell spokesman apologising as its network fails again
The boards of directors must accept full responsibility for the companies over which they presided, and clearly the role of the board and individual directors in financial institutions requires new guidance, vetting and checking by the Central Bank.
- The report of the Public Ac- counts Committee
Over-relaxed.
- The attitude of banks on their duties in relation to collecting DIRT according to the report