At the very heart of this is an incredible, appalling, disgraceful shame of running Fás

Fine Gael TD Fergus O'Dowd on the latest Fás controversy involving alleged grade falsification

I think it's a judgement-call for Professor Drumm. He's aware of the difficulties that pertain, the budgetary situation with the HSE, and really it's a moral call for him in the circumstances

Education minister Batt O'Keefe raises questions over the HSE chief executive Brendan Drumm's €70,000 bonus

I am not going to get involved in the morality of this issue, it's not appropriate

Health minister Mary Harney on Drumm's bonus

We're going to give him the best send-off ever in Dublin

Boyzone manager Louis Walsh ahead of singer Stephen Gately's funeral yesterday

Where do they get their kicks from? And especially Dunphy, he should know better by now. He's a skinny rat, a skinny little rat

Ireland player Stephen Hunt attacks Eamon Dunphy after the soccer pundit referred to Ireland's performance against Italy as "shameful"

I did use it [the word 'shameful']; it was not the right word to use for the performance. It would be appropriate, I think, to what's happening to Andy Reid. One word was taken out of a 20-minute conversation – the word 'shameful'. It's not an appropriate word to use for the performance [against Italy]

Dunphy apologises for his use of the word "shameful"

We don't ground our children. But we are going to talk to him

Richard Heene, the father of a six-year-old boy feared to have fallen to his death from a home-made helium balloon in Colorado in the US only to be found hiding in his garage

Surely it should be possible for someone in the public eye to say something silly without everyone calling for their blood. This is why public figures have virtually stopped saying anything at all

Comedian Frank Skinner

I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead

Hollywood star George Clooney

Only the people of South Kerry have the right to exclude me from political life

Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue in his resignation speech