"Tomás Ó Sé is a pundit, he is not appointed or elected by anybody to question anybody... He is just promoting his own agenda, to promote himself as a pundit. That's what all this is about. What Tomás Ó Sé is at is unforgivable and I think he should consider his position as a pundit when he is prepared to condemn lesser people and ask 'does it suit us'."

"[Charlie's] an awful man for answering his phone. I couldn't get in contact with him to get a challenge game... He [David Power] gave me the number, Charlie still didn't answer! If you know Charlie, he wouldn't be bothered. He'd just say I'm a low level guy - he only answers to a few of the big people, presidents of the US and that sort of thing."

"In 2020, on the Donegal Gaelic footballer."

"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."

"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."

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

"I had to get out of a hole, wash my hands and sign the form."

"On signing for Sligo Rovers in 1979."

"There was Patsy McGowan coming towards me, dapper dressed as always and a form in his hand."

"On the then Sligo Rovers manager."

"I was captain and we lost by two points to Monaghan. People said we lost it because we had a soccer midfield: myself and Denis Bonner, Packie's twin.""

"On playing Gaelic football for Donegal in the 1981 Ulster final."

"I played until I was 33 or 34 with one and a half legs."

"I managed to hold onto some performance with the knee in soccer having had two or three cruciates, whereas in Gaelic football it was a more difficult thing to do."

"Odhrán Mac Niallais didn't lick his talent off the table."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"The woman I'm going to have to marry is going to have to be very, very good to top this day off for me."

"If I went to America and I went in to a big room and there was a thousand super models inside in that room, naked, all trying to seduce me, and if there was a pint of beer at the end of the room, I would go for the pint of beer. That's trust."

"The Irish Times"

"There are people who go to the Hague for war crimes – I tell you this, some of the coaches nowadays should be up for crimes against Gaelic football."

"Donegal Democrat"

"Shi'ite football."

"RTÉ Television"

"Puke football."

"Meath, like last year, won't be beaten by 16 points."

"Original link / Secondary coverage"

"Clifford and his colleagues could have a field day. I don't give Cork a prayer against Kerry."

"The extra hour in bed this morning just was sexual!"

"And I was very annoyed to hear Pat Spillane going on about that again recently, saying that about this Sligo team, that we were waving to the crowd. Sure Pat Spillane was a great footballer, but he can be very insulting as well, to a lot of counties."

"For McHugh, think Messi."

"Barnes Murphy, following Sligo's 2007 Connacht Senior Football Championship win, on accusations (encouraged by Spillane) that Sligo were complacent in allowing the Kerry team featuring Spillane easily defeat them in the 1975 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final."

"I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away."

"I inclined To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind. He said: I made the Iliad from such A local row. Gods make their own importance."

"O commemorate me where there is water, Canal water, preferably, so stilly Greeny at the heart of summer. Brother Commemorate me thus beautifully Where by a lock niagarously roars The falls for those who sit in the tremendous silence Of mid-July."

"The headlands and the hedges were so fresh and wonderful, so gay with the dawn of the world. Tarry never tired looking at these ordinary things as he tired of the Mass and of religion. In a dim way he felt that he was not a Christian. In the god of Poetry he found a God more important to him than Christ. His god had never accepted Christ."

"They were both more than twenty-seven in those enthusiastic years of nineteen hundred and thirty-five, yet neither had as much as ever kissed a girl. Not that kissing was much in favour in that district. Reading about lovers kissing, Tarry often reflected on the fact that he had never seen anyone kissing anyone, except poor old Peter Toole whom he once saw kissing a corpse in a wakehouse in the hope of getting a couple of glasses of whiskey."

"Outside the door a group of men stood whispering while the less solemn parts of the Mass were being said. These men stared about them at the rolling country of little hills and commented on the crops, the weather, the tombstones or whatever came into their dreaming minds. 'Very weedy piece of spuds, them of Mick Finnegan's.' 'He doesn't put on the dung, Larry: the man that doesn't drive on the dung won't take out a crop.' A pause, 'Nothing like the dung.'"

"With women in general he was truthful and sincere and would talk philosophy or Canon Law (Canon Law fascinated him, though what he knew of the subject was utter nonsense) to them on the slightest provocation. Women cannot understand honesty in a man."

"In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people."

"'I was talking to one of the McArdles there and I was telling him that he ought to be getting a women. "Huh," says he, "what would I be doing with a woman? I have me pint and me fag," says he, "and I'm not going to bring in a woman.'""

"'Begod there's a powerful piece of turnips'"

"'I always say to these here, marry the first man that asks you. There's only three classes of men a woman should never marry - a delicate man, a drunken man, and a lazy man. I'm not so sure that the lazy man isn't the worst.'"

"I do not know what age I am, I am no mortal age; I know nothing of women, Nothing of cities, I cannot die Unless I walk outside these whitethorn hedges."