"The banking matter is now concluded in Ireland. We have resolved our difficulties there"

Brian Lenihan's final words in a BBC4 'Today' programme interview on the latest calculation of what the banks will cost the taxpayer

"Of course we want to get this desperate government out of office quickly but we have to put the country first"

Ruairí Quinn offers to pair off with TÁnaiste Mary Coughlan so she can travel to the US with Enterprise Ireland

"You voted for it, why are you clapping?"

Beaten brother David Miliband snaps at colleague and deputy leader of the UK Labour Party, Harriet Harman's, applause for brother Ed's condemnation of UK involvement in Iraq war

"I want him to go to school here, I swear to God I'm worried, I'm worried, oh people, I'm worried. God forbid Mirwais should be forced to leave Afghanistan"

Afghan President HAMId karzai breaks down and weeps live on air, as he fears for the future of his three-year-old son

"It's the disease of modern living, I suppose, to live in the past or live in the future. You have to live your life for today and make it the best possible today"

Film maker Peter Sheridan on why positive thinking helped him recover from throat cancer

"I had weaned him off drugs, but they had been replaced by sex and he had never had proper treatment"

Jerry Hall recounts how she successfully got her ex-husband Mick Jagger to stop smoking heroin, but couldn't prevent his infidelities

"Getting some last-minute tweets in before we get banned!!"

Graeme McDowell illustrates the sheer banality of tweetdom before the Colin Montgomerie ban on social networking imposed on the European Ryder Cup team comes into force