Mark said, 'Daddy is a bold boy. Daddy hit mummy and pushed mummy down.'

The sister of Kelly-Anne Corcoran tells the Spanish court on Wednesday what the son of the deceased told her afterwards

They should all be in jail for what they have done to this country and its young people.

Fine Gael's Michael Ring gives his opinion on Irish bankers in the Dáil on Wednesday

Unfortunately, I must support it with gritted teeth because there are a lot of scum, and I state this deferentially in one sense, who do not deserve to be bailed out in this way.

Green Party TD Paul Gogarty on the government bailout

We're in extraordinary economic circumstances. We face stark choices. If we do not make the right ones, it will have catastrophic consequences.

Brian Cowen (right) speak-ing at a forum of North-South business leaders in Dublin on Thursday

Spelling was capricious then.

Genealogist Mary Lee Dunn on the difficulty of tracing Sarah Palin's Irish roots

The paparazzi took advantage of the situation. Peaches felt intimidated.

Peaches Geldof's agent Kirsty Williams, on why she cut short her appearance at the €1.3m launch of House of Fraser in Dundrum on Thursday.

She is paralysed from her armpits down but she has her arms and her intellect which is huge.

The father of Nóirín Nic Gairbheith on the four-year-old's return to school after a horrific road accident in May

We put forth a plan that was big because we've got a big problem.

President George Bush (left) expresses his disappointment in the rejection of the $700bn rescue package

She's very ignorant. Ignorance is an American characteristic. To me, Sarah Palin and John McCain look like a poster for a San Diego news channel.

Filmmaker Oliver Stone on the Republican presidential hopeful and his hapless sidekick.