Colm O'Rourke

"And we could poke fun at them about by-passing the toll gates and 10 shilling notes and driving up on Ferguson tractors and supplying them with maps of Dublin and Nelson's Pillar not being there anymore."

"If they waited a couple of hours they could have commemorated two massacres in Croke Park."

"They always feel a bit isolated up there in the north-west."

"This union, which is dominated by some socialist philosophy, is not fit for purpose."

"I often got a belt from my mother with a wet dish cloth for kicking a ball through a window."

"The Miraculous Medal around his neck is obviously not working all the time anyway."

"I see the Taoiseach keeping a very close eye on the Donegal team, obviously looking for prospective candidates for Donegal in the next election."

"They're like the grim reaper when anybody comes [to Croke Park] they just put them away with ruthless efficiency."

"There is no hope for anybody else. You might as well give up the ghost now."

"Did you see last week where he referred to 'the Greek poet Horace', assisting those of us who are too old by translating the Latin quotation into English? ... Horace a Roman citizen, wrote in Latin. Homer was the Greek poet. Good luck to Meath at the weekend."

"I think Colm might need to go to Specsavers, because any big game I've seen, Michael does not go hiding, that's for sure. He has been brilliant, he is a leader on and off the pitch and he goes looking for work anywhere on that pitch."