We move on from here as a completely united party even though we had a vote on this issue. Our priority now is to have a general election as soon as possible

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny after winning the vote of confidence in his leadership

Clearly Enda Kenny has won the confidence of the parliamentary party and that's the test in this game… there will be no more heaves

Richard Bruton after his failed leadership challenge against Enda Kenny

It's the defeat of the cappuccino generation by the men who eat their dinner in the middle of the day

An unnamed Fine Gael backbencher offers an assessment of the Fine Gael heave

We had a wobble and we dealt with it

Fine Gael TD Tom Hayes on the heave

I do not know whether you (Eamon Ó Cuív) have noticed that the government have f**ked up the economy. Look around you. You've gambled away the jobs. You've used the money needed to create new jobs to bail out the banks, your developer cronies and the Greek shipping magnates

Sinn Féin TD Aengus Ó Snodaigh uses the F-word in the Dáil

We have instructed our stewards not to allow them into our grounds, but that is not always possible. If fans do persist in taking them inside, we will confiscate them if we get complaints

The GAA react to the emergence of the ear piercing vuvuzela horn, the unloved trademark of the World Cup

I think that the actions we have heard described are much more like the actions of Nazi stormtroopers than British paratroopers

Colonel Richard Kemp, formerly of the British Army, reacting in the wake of last week's Saville Report into the Bloody Sunday killings in the North

I think it's a good song

Gerbrand Bakker, the first Dutch writer to win the International Impac Dublin Literary Award last week, on why he wanted to play a song rather than make an acceptance speech at the awards ceremony

They are still sleeping in the same cot, still in the same pram, and they are still our little fighters

Angie Benhaffaf, mother of conjoined twins Hassan and Hussein, at a civic reception last week in Cork

Our investigations into the misuse of Irish passports have reached conclusions about the conduct of the Israeli authorities which are profoundly disturbing and which are seriously detrimental to the kind of relationship we would like to have with Israel

Foreign affairs minister Micheál Martin discusses the decision to expel an Israeli embassy official over the belief that Mossad agents used Irish passport numbers during an assassination