A pariah, a chancer (and) a rogue

Embattled Senator Ivor Callely tells the High Court how he feels he has been portrayed in the ongoing expenses row

It would appear to me as if the scaffolding surrounding this government in Leinster House is beginning to collapse and from soundings that I hear from Independent deputies they don’t want to be under that scaffolding when it falls

Enda Kenny at the Fine Gael party think-in in Waterford

We are being punished because we have exposed our dirty linen on the banking front. We have made no secret of that because I believe that the quicker we bring that out, the quicker confidence will be restored

Brian Lenihan on the pressure Ireland faces from the international financial markets

If the government knowingly guaranteed the debts of bankrupt banks ... they will have jeopardised Ireland’s economic sovereignty to save a niche developers’ bank of little systemic importance to the economy as a whole

Labour’s Joan Burton on the latest revelations about Anglo Irish Bank

This is a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda. You could have serious violence in places like Pakistan or Afghanistan. This could increase the recruitment of individuals who would be willing to blow themselves up in American or European cities

Barack Obama about pastor Terry Jones who had planned to burn copies of the Koran

I have managed to amass a huge debt through Village and don’t have a pension, so I have to pay off the debt and put something towards a pension

Vincent Browne explains his decision to sell his €3.25m home in Dalkey, Co Dublin

There is one main problem – it’s called drink. Ninety per cent of the time these things don’t happen unless players have a drink. I’ve had a drink all my life, but these lads know that you can’t do it anymore

Tottenham Hotspur coach Harry Redknapp believes alcohol is behind a generation of misbehaving footballers

Wayne chased me with sex texts and paid in wads of cash. He didn’t seem to care he was betraying Coleen. I think he believes he is invincible and untouchable. As a woman, I wouldn’t want that done to me – especially if I was pregnant

Jenny Thompson, aka Juicy Jeni, shares her thoughts on footballer Wayne Rooney