I'm not talking to the media – Disgraced former Anglo Irish Bank boss Seán FitzPatrick who has reportedly failed to meet interest payments of almost €400,000 a month on the €106 million he borrowed from the bank
He should be pursued for every penny he owes – Minister for the Environment and Green Party leader John Gormley
We will recoup all monies that we can – Taoiseach Brian Cowen
The package sanctioned by the Department of Finance [for retiring Fás chief executive Rody Molloy] and which the Tánaiste approved did not include the car – Department statement on Mr Molloy's departure deal which included a €1.4 million pension top-up and his, hitherto unknown, retention of a €20,000 Audi car
Britain needs an Irish 'No' – Headline over editorial in yesterday's Eurosceptic Daily Telegraphnewspaper
By tomorrow evening, Brian Cowen will be gone. We'll have saved billions from being flushed down the drain on Nama, and we'll have put an end to any idea of taxing child benefit – Declan Ganley writing yesterday in the Sunnewspaper (Irish edition)
[If the Lisbon Treaty is ratified] Europe will become an even more centralist superstate, run by an unelected president and an unaccountable and at times shamelessly corrupt bureaucratic elite in Brussels – The Daily Mail(Irish edition)
So long everybody! I'm headed for a new adventure. If I can figure out the trick, I'll send back a post card, or something. In any case, stay alert, be on the lookout – Opening paragraph of the obituary, written by herself, of Connecticut resident Vilma Carocari, who died on September 27th