I'm not going to walk away from the post. I'm going to make sure that I see it through this period

Taoiseach Brian Cowen responds to a poll in which his satisfaction rating dropped

It's not about me... I'm just as much in the dock in terms of Fine Gael's failings. We're in the dock, we have to look at our whole performance as a party

Fine Gael's Richard Bruton on his party's performance in Friday's Ipsos MRBI/Irish Times opinion poll

An expression of regret in my language is a sorry, yes

Finance minister Brian Lenihan reacts to the two reports into the Irish banking crisis

Brian Cowen, you can blame him for leading us into this, but I think that these two reports make it quite clear he is leading us out of it as well

Transport Minister Noel Dempsey raises questions about Brian Cowen in an RTÉ radio interview

If this was my first pregnancy, I wouldn't have known any different. The only reason I questioned it is because it wasn't my first pregnancy, and because I've had miscarriages as well that I knew the feeling. I knew to trust my own instincts and my own body

Melissa Redmond, the mother who was incorrectly told her unborn baby was dead before seeking a second opinion

There are an awful lot of people who are pregnant – 80,000 a year – and we want to make sure that these women have confidence in our system

Health minister Mary Harney reacts to the scandal as more mothers come forward with stories of misdiagnoses of unborn children

I do pity the girls that have me supervising; I'm young, handsome and probably very distracting, ha ha

A tweet written by a Leaving Cert exam supervisor during a sitting of an English paper which led to his being fired last week

I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answer so I know whose ass to kick

US President Barack Obama reacts angrily to the ongoing disaster resulting from BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

In terms of a presenter who can bring an audience and profile and do things that 2FM needs to do and produce great entertaining radio, he was the only name on my list

John McMahon, head of 2FM, on the appointment of Ryan Tubridy to take over the flagship slot of the late Gerry Ryan