The Ceann Comhairle has announced that he will resign his position next week when he will make a statement to the House

Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue's one-line statement announcing his resignation.

A Cheann Comhairle, I regret to say this but I consider that your position is no longer tenable. I think you will either have to resign or be removed from office

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore drops that bombshell in the Dáil chamber.

As I say, there are some who can't step back from dancing on a grave, but I'm not one of them

Taoiseach Brian Cowen on Fine Gael and Sinn Féin's calls for John O'Donoghue's immediate resignation

If we don't conclude talks tomorrow morning with Fianna Fáil on transforming the programme for government, we walk

TD Ciaran Cuffe on the Green party talks with Fianna Fáil over the renegotiation of the programme for government.

These recent days have proved to be the most harrowing of our lives – no sleep and barely surviving

Irish father Alan Symes on the suspected abduction of his two year-old daughter Aisling in Auckland, New Zealand.

Very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world's attention and given its people hope for a better future

The Norwegian Nobel committee in announcing that US president Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

The last thing the business needs is a strike

Aer Lingus chief financial officer Seán Coyle reacts to anger expressed by employees as the airline introduced a range of cost-cutting measures.

I take terrible blackouts when I drink... All I remember is a thump. I realised I was in an accident, I remember seeing Ava's face

Mary Carberry, sentenced to six years in prison with the final two years suspended for dangerous driving causing the deaths of two children, including her own daughter, and serious bodily harm to two others

The people who are descended from that Shields family all point back to Ireland, but no particular location in Ireland

Genealogist Megan Smolenyak on first lady Michelle Obama's Irish roots.