Enda Kenny

"You could do with a day's work, I'd say."

"So I say to those people. And God knows we have some All-Ireland champions here in Castlebar. I don't mean Castlebar Mitchels, I mean the whingers that I hear every week."

"The incoming government is not going to leave our people in the dark. likes to know what the story is."

"The fact is that I used the word, and no context can excuse it. I failed to exemplify my own standards and those of my party. I apologise for any offence this may have caused, particularly to the Lumu…"

"Is only justified if the target is a reactionary, anti-democratic, anti-human rights obscurantist like bin Laden?"

"If there's anyone out there who still doubts that Ireland is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our ancestors is alive in our time, who still questions our capaci…"

"Generally when people speak to each other they use words."

"Bejaysus, I wish I didn't have to go back and face what I have to face."