Dúirt Siad...

We should just cut out the middle-men and have the Cement Manufacturers Association register itself as a political party. - Sinn Féin Environment spokesperson Arthur Morgan TD reacts to media reports that Minister Dick Roche vetoed a suggestion from the Office of Public Works (OPW) to make the use of green cement mandatory in public building projects, 17 August.

The Taoiseach was informed of Louis Moriarty's waste disposal activities by the residents of North Wall more than 25 years ago. - Frank Connolly on the relationship between Bertie Ahern and Louis Moriarty, currently before the courts on illegal dumping charges. Ahern claims not to have met Moriarty prior to turning up at a photo launch for his €20 million hotel development in Sneem, County Kerry last month. The Village, 17 August.

Political inaction over decades has allowed standards to plunge to the levels exposed by Morris. - Michael Clifford, The Sunday Tribune , 20 August.

We believe it stems from an incident in which some young men broke into a local factory and stole some white suits which they then paraded around in. - Garda spokesperson on over the top reports that the Ku Klux Klan were active and parading in Carlow Town. Sunday Independent, 20 August.

In reality those people paying for a wrap of cocaine at a dinner party are the people subsidising the drug gangs and fuelling their squalid and violent wars for control of a lucrative trade estimated in June to be worth a billion Euros. - Sinn Féin spokesperson on Justice Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD accusing the 'wealthy and trendy' of subsidising Ireland's booming cocaine epidemic, 21 August.

I am reiterating my denials that I am a drug user. - Embattled Fianna Fáil councillor Liam Kelly after a Sunday paper published photographs of him allegedly snorting cocaine. Irish Independent, 22 August.

The Israeli Defence Forces had forgotten that this was not the West Bank or Gaza and that the world's media was on hand to record the cruelty with which Israel conducted the war on Lebanese civilians and infrastructure. - Tom McGurk, Sunday Business Post, 20 August.

He contradicts himself on numerous occasions but not least by referring to the Republican Movement as "so-called republicans" while he himself - presumably as a real republican, advocates the acceptance of the British monarchy! - Sinn Féin North Kerry TD Martin Ferris on comments by Fine Gael TD and MEP Gay Mitchell at a ceremony for Sinn Féin founder Arthur Griffith.