Our income tax system as it stands today is no longer fit for purpose

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan brings 140,000 people earning under €20,000 into the tax net

Minister, what have you got against third children? Did some third child beat you up coming home from school as a young fella?

FG finance spokesman Michael Noonan challenges Brian Lenihan over his decision to cut child benefit for third and more children

I would do the job for €250,000

Bord Gáis chief executive John Mullins pre-empts the budget by agreeing to a salary cut, but the minister allows him and all other semi-state bosses, to keep his bonus, in Mullins' case, worth €124,000

Things changed as the rape became more severe. That was when I started to feel fear towards him; he tied me up over a coffee table my hands and legs bound with the cord he used to fasten his clerical vestments. He then raped me

David, a victim of now defrocked priest Tony Walsh, sentenced to 16 years for abusing six boys in the 1970s and '80s

What they want is dead heroes, like Sid Vicious and James Dean. I'm not interested in being a dead f***cking hero…so forget 'em, forget 'em

John Lennon lashes the idol worship of critics in his last interview, three days before he was shot 30 years ago, published in full for the first time by Rolling Stone magazine

I have said it from day one that I am sorry we are in this situation but it is my job, and it is the job of all of us, to move on and get this country moving back to where we have to get it

Brian Cowen fails to apologise once again, this time on RTÉ's News at One

Why would you want to hide it?

Oprah Winfrey tells ABC's Barbara Walters she is not a lesbian