I am gobsmacked. It sounds as if he was on Winning Streak

Fine Gael TD Bernard Allen is surprised to hear that former Fás director general Rody Molloy was allowed to keep his company car

Well, there won't be a Lisbon 3, that's for sure

Taoiseach Brian Cowen addresses Fianna Fáil's last press conference before polling day

Liar liar pants on fire!

A slogan adopted by Young Fine Gael and used on an admobile parked near anti-Lisbon group Cóir's offices in Dublin

The recovery starts on Saturday

Minister for communications Eamon Ryan claims that Ireland's economic recovery will begin after a 'Yes' vote to the Lisbon treaty

In case the carrot doesn't work, they've pulled out the stick of threatening that we'll have a strike of investment, we'll have a flight of capital, foreign capital won't come here

Socialist party MEP Joe Higgins berates the 'Yes' side before polling day

The government is talking about pay cuts but there are pay increases due that were never implemented

Siptu's Paul Bell explains his union's claim for a 3.5% pay increase for 34,000 health service staff

This job would make a big difference to me financially, and especially for my daughter. I'd get to clear a few debts and start over after Christmas

Neville Byrne, who was just one of hundreds of hopeful applicants for part-time seasonal work at Marks & Spencer

Talk is no substitute for action. Our patience is not unlimited

US president Barack Obama on international talks with Iran, which has been told it has until the end of the year to prove that nuclear technological development cannot be used for the manufacturing of weapons

After 12 long years in power, this government has lost its way. Now it's lost the Sun's support too. Labour's Lost It

British tabloid the Sun turns on Gordon Brown and Labour on the night of his conference speech in Brighton

It began with kangaroos, then it was camels. At some stage there was an elephant, now apparently it's llamas. It's cheap, it's inhumane, it's unnecessary

Charles O'Brien of Fossett's Circus speaking about the old tradition of deliberately letting circus animals escape for publicity, following last week's incident involving llamas and goats from Circus Sydney at the Red Cow roundabout