Dúirt Siad...

You must be joking," O' Leary told The Sunday Business Post, "No. Hell will freeze over first." Laura Noonan, quoting Michael O' Leary's response when asked if Aer Lingus staff could find new jobs at Ryanair. - The Sunday Business Post, 22 October.

The most remarkable thing about all of this is the DUP's continuing belief that they - or indeed what's left of Irish Unionists - are negotiating from a position of strength. It seems that it has hardly even crossed their minds that they are now being spoon-fed, like historical refugees, on the political charity of the British and Irish governments. Here's a roadmap, here's apolitical a-to-z and, if you behave, there'll be a big wad of cash awaiting you. - Tom McGurk, The Sunday Business Post, 22 October.

They came in and thought they could throw a few pound at the peasants and they would lie down," Michael Clifford, quoting a source in Belmullet on Shell's entry into Mayo. - Sunday Tribune, 23 October.

In her address, on the theme of Many Streams - One Broad River, she said Ireland had "the chance to do properly and with pride what so many other countries failed to do or did with ill-grace, to make good neighbours of strangers and fully-committed, fully contributing contributing citizens of all." - Patsy McGarry, The Irish Times, 23 October on President McAleese urging Irish people to welcome immigrants.

Ultimately, dialogue has to resolve this, but the conditions of trust are not there, as there is no real evidence that Shell wants change." Shell to Sea campaigner Dr Mark Garavan. - The Irish Times 24 October.

At the Garda station things took a sinister turn when a team of gardai, referring to themselves as the Serious Crime squad, appeared. "My interpretation is that they were not specialised interviewers. They were specialised in framing people. They were brought down deliberately to frame me." - Frank McBrearty Jnr who was wrongly accused of murder in Donegal in 1996. The Irish Independent, 24 October.