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UK prime minister Gordon Brown takes the gloves off during the second leaders' debate, attacking Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg about nuclear disarmament

I can personally state that Mr Fahey not only abused but attacked and threatened members of this House regarding this scheme. One of the members here was assaulted by Frank Fahey in this House. Members of the media were warned and threatened

Fine Gael TD Tom Sheahan uses his Oireachtas privilege to accuse Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey of assault

This is yet another false allegation by Fine Gael over the Lost at Sea scheme

Fahey rejects Sheahan's comments

No legislation... said any airline getting a fare of €30 should be reimbursing passengers many thousands of euro for hotel accommodation. We will look forward to seeing this in court because, frankly, I think this is a great opportunity for the airlines to expose this nonsense

Ryanair chief executive Michael O'Leary complains about having to reimburse passengers inconvenienced by the Icelandic volcano

I have learned that when you are in a hole, stop digging

Michael O'Leary is forced to change his mind about reimbursing passengers

Consistently during Dáil debates, the minister tried to magic away the €4bn in taxpayers' money pumped into Anglo. Now Eurostat says differently, and corrects the government's calculations

Labour leader Joan Burton after it emerged that Ireland's debt had risen to a record €100bn following an EU ruling that €4bn given to Anglo must be treated as day-to-day spending

The economy this morning is no worse off than it was yesterday as a result of the figures because the figures relate to last year. It was a technical readjustment but we haven't had to borrow any extra money, we haven't had to make any extra repayments

Minister for Tourism Mary Hanafin plays down the rise in debt as a technical adjustment

It's going to take time for all this to sink in and we do expect our lives to change, but we're going to take it slowly – for the moment anyhow

A Waterford couple who scooped last weekend's €16.7m Lotto jackpot

Little did he realise as he packed his football boots that it would be the last time he would do so

Father Bernard Hogan at the funeral of Leitrim star Philly McGuinness