This is a jobless and joyless budget

Fine Gael's Richard Bruton reacts to Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan's budget speech

The worst is over... recent indicators suggest that economic activity in this country is turning the corner, and my department is now expecting a return to positive growth within the next six to nine months

Brian Lenihan in his 2010 budget speech

The report is on sale in the bookshops and it is quite a seller

Brian Lenihan talks about the McCarthy report at a post-budget press briefing

The minister's decisions to cut the cost of drink and cars makes his budget a kind of 'Top Gear' budget for lads, of which Jeremy Clarkson would approve

Labour's Joan Burton responds to Lenihan's speech

The people who uphold the law can't be lawbreakers. No society can countenance that. No democracy can countenance that

Justice minister Dermot Ahern on plans for possible industrial action by gardaí

I accept everything that the commission has said in the report. But I maintain that I did inform the parish priest fully and subsequent events proved that, not only did I have a meeting with the priests involved, all of them, in a reasonably short space of time

Auxiliary bishop Ray Field explains why it would be 'wrong' of him to resign

I wish I could turn back the clock

Anne Burke (56), of Ballybrittas in Co Laois, who admitted hitting her husband Pat Burke with a hammer but was cleared of his murder by reason of diminished responsibility

This was a particularly nasty attack. Elderly people must feel safe in their homes

TD Mary O'Rourke on a terrifying raid at an elderly couple's home in Longford last week

I can see the tears in his eyes now – he probably wouldn't have turned up to the opening but I think he would be very, very overcome by emotion

Samuel Beckett's niece Caroline Murphy at the launch of the iconic Beckett Bridge over Dublin's River Liffey

Make no mistake: evil exists in this world

Barack Obama, sounding like George W Bush, accepts the Nobel Prize for Peace

People have called me a home-wrecker, gold-digger, tramp, whore. I made mistakes, but I'm not those things. I have good qualities

Rachel Uchitel who found herself at the centre of the ongoing Tiger Woods drama