Naturally I feel embarrassed at the way that we won... Of course the fairest solution would be to replay the game but it is not in my control

French captain Thierry Henry on his now infamous 'hand of frog' goal

If that result remains it reinforces the view that if you cheat you will win

Justice minister Dermot Ahern

There is a team that should be in the World Cup today and that's us. It's up to them, in particular the French, to recognise there was a travesty last night, an injustice

FAI chief executive John Delaney

It is better to stop the game for 30 seconds rather than make a big mistake

Irish manager Goivanni Trapattoni

We are banned by Fifa from saying anything

Swedish referee Martin Hansson responds to the controversy, sort of

Whereas such an occurrence back then would be described as unusual, this is the pattern that we are going to see more of due to climate change

Kieran Hickey, lecturer in geography at NUI Galway, on the heavy flooding in the west of Ireland last week

The flag outside Aras na Mac Léinn is flying at half mast as a mark of respect for our lost friends. May they rest in peace

Donna Cummins, president of the NUI Galway students' union after four young female students died in a road crash last Tuesday

That's the bank's press release

Brian Cowen is treated to opposition derision after inadvertently reading an AIB press release into theDáil record when being questioned about the salary of the incoming chief executive

I don't believe for an instant that the Taoiseach put forward my name simply because I was a woman

Newly appointed EU Commissioner Maire Geoghegan Quinn denies that her appointment was gender related

The stress over the last five weeks has been dreadful. I just hope there are no more delays

Abuse victim Marie Collins welcoming the High Court's clearance last week for the publication of the report into clerical sex abuse in the Dublin Archdiocese

One of the things I was happy about was to be Irish and part of this whole expanse of literature

Writer Colum McCann on winning the prestigious US National Book Award