It would completely undermine the confidence of customers generally in Anglo Irish Bank.
– Tánaiste Mary Coughlan on why it would be wrong to name Anglo's golden circle 10.
€451 million.
– The amount Anglo lent the 10 to buy its own shares, as disclosed yesterday in the accounts.
We are now fighting for our economic future.
– Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.
Can he confirm that no member of his Cabinet was in any way involved in the decision of a new golden circle? The Galway tent may be gone but its spirit seems to be alive and well.
– Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny querying Taoiseach Brian Cowen.
I had no indication and no involvement in names of any description.
– Brian Cowen replies.
The guards were wonderful, they really were super and thank God we were very well looked after.
– Julien Flynn pays tribute to the two gardaí who rescued him, his wife and three of their four children when an armed so-called tiger kidnap gang attacked them in their Galway home last Sunday night.
My regret for what I have subjected you to does not decrease but instead I feel nothing but increasing shame.
– Alleged pyramid scheme operator Breifne O’Brien in an e-mail to his brother-in-law last December.
The one thing Jack desired again and again was to be reconciled with those friends with whom he’d fallen out.
– Mgr Patrick Finn at the funeral of playwright Hugh Leonard.