Hopefully the police will learn from this decision and no other journalist will find themselves
in the position that I found myself – potentially facing up to five years for doing nothing other
than my job

Sunday Tribune Northern Editor Suzanne Breen reacting after a Belfast court upheld the journalist's right to keep confidential her sources of information on the Real IRA

People are being gunned down in ways that are reminiscent of Al Capone

Labour party deputy leader Joan Burton reacting to three murders in 24 hours last week

They made signs like they wanted to cut my brother's baby's throat. They said they wanted to kill us

Romanian Couaccusil Filuis speaking after last week's racist attack in Belfast in which more than 100 Romanians were forced to flee their homes

Another day, another stolen laptop, another fiasco when it comes to personal data

Fine Gael communications spokesman Simon Coveney commenting after a laptop containing the bank-account details of 75,000 Bord Gáis electricity customers was stolen last week

Thank God they have confirmed it because it was getting a bit stressful yesterday

€350,000 lotto winner Dermot Finglas, whose lost ticket was handed back to him by an honest shopkeeper, after he was finally allowed to collect his winnings

If these reports were to be confirmed, what we would see would be a seismic transformation within loyalism. What they would say is that loyalism has carried out a major act of decommissioning

Northern secretary Shaun Woodward on reports that loyalists have started to decommission their weapons

The decision we adopt tomorrow will give legal guarantee that certain matters of concern to
the Irish people will be unaffected by the entry into force of the Lisbon treaty

Brian Cowen in a letter to British prime minister Gordon Brown on the Lisbon treaty talks at the EU leaders summit

The point is that the treaty is still the same. There is an elaborate charade going on to divert attention from the fact that the treaty is the same

Socialist MEP Joe Higgins outlines his opposition to the second Lisbon referendum