"They are advised to be careful wherever the go, but you can't stop young players going out."

- PFA chief executive Gordon Taylor after this week's incident involving Roy Keane in a Manchester bar.

"The feeling wasn't so much one of anger as devastation."

- Carlow player Johnny Nevin on all of those nights training for the championship, which is now over after one controversial match.

"IOC members will have to behave as much as possible like ordinary citizens of Sydney."

- Sydney Olympic Organising Committee president Michael Knight on announcing cutbacks on cars and tickets for IOC members.