That's an indication that this particular chapter is closed and the party will now move on unless there are further disclosures about Willie O'Dea which seems unlikely

The curse of David Davin-Power strikes again. The RTE correspondent predicts that Willie O'Dea will survive. Within 12 hours he resigned. Davin-Power made the same prediction before former Ceann Comhairle John O'Donoghue was forced to resign last year

I'm a victim here as well. Everybody's a victim. I'm being accused of something I didn't do, which is perjury, so from that point of view I'm a victim

Willie O'Dea crumbles during an interview on RTE radio's the News at One

The Green Party stands for more. We must be true to ourselves regardless of the consequences. The alternative is to become what we hate

Green party member Vincent P Martin expresses his concern over the O'Dea affair

Despite knowing the full facts, the Taoiseach and his Fianna Fáil and Green ministers queued up just yesterday to vehemently support Deputy O'Dea, to assert that he had done nothing wrong other than a simple human mistake, and to vote complete confidence in him

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny on the O'Dea affair

No I certainly am not

Tánaiste Mary Coughlan refuses to meet Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary over the Dublin Airport jobs row. She later met O'Leary

As President Clinton once said in a different context, when it comes to jobs I am afraid the government never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity

Labour leader Eamon Gilmore on the Ryanair row

Deputy Gilmore would not fill a good coat hanger

Arts, sport and tourism minister Martin Cullen lashes out at Eamon Gilmore

We could store the e-voting machines in the empty hangar

Labour's Pat Rabbitte offers a tongue-in-cheek solution to store e-voting machines and use empty hangars at Dublin airport

She will have to live the rest of her life with a conviction for fratricide

Justice Paul Carney, after he had handed down a five-year jail sentence to Caroline Brennan for the manslaughter of her brother Michael in Kilkenny

These numbers correspond to actual numbers on three legitimate Irish passports

A statement from the Department of Foreign Affairs on how fake Irish passports were used by those responsible for the assassination of a Hamas commander. The identities of the persons recorded on the forged passports do not correspond to those recorded on the valid passports carrying the same numbers