Where else do the opposition members suggest the money be obtained? We can obtain it either on the money markets at 9% or on the terms of our European partners at 5.8%

Brian Cowen spells out the financial realities of going cap in hand to the IMF and EU

Get over it, nobody died

Roy Keane rehashes his stock response to a footballing controversy after England failed in its bid for world cup 2018

When you are entering government you are entering an asylum, believe you me

Green leader and environment minister John Gormley bemoans the straitjacket of power

We believe we've given him a new lease of life and have evolved his character

Jon White, marketing director of Kimberley Clark on why they've killed off the Andrex toilet paper puppy and replaced it with a computer- generated image

I would see it as a weakness, slightly, that they're not a real man

Former Ireland striker Tony Cascarino on the cowls worn by today's footballers to keep their necks warm

He is an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. Why was he not pursued with the same urgency we pursue al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders?

Sarah Palin says wikileaks boss Julian Assange should be hunted down like Osama Bin Laden

You may think and you sometimes read that Europe is in chaos, disintegrating, the euro about to disappear.

This is wrong Klaus Regling, head of the EU's temporary rescue mechanism

He's put a knife in our back, and accused us of theft. He'll have to prove it

Danielle Le Guennec dismisses claims by Claude Picasso that her husband Pierre stole 271 paintings worth millions from his father Pablo's home