"It was getting to the stage where Girvan (Dempsey) would've got injured in a bouncy castle."

Ireland's assistant coach, Eddie O'Sullivan, offering a light-hearted assessment of Dempsey's spate of injuries over the past two seasons.

"You just have to keep going."

USA international and Bath flanker, son of a retired army general, Mike Lyle, who used to work in the part of the Pentagon that was destroyed last Tuesday, on the tragic events in new york.

"There were rugby balls around but we didn't see much of them."

Ireland squad member Guy Easterby when asked about the summer trip to Poland.