John Delaney Quotations

Now you come up against trades from France and Spain and Italy, for instance, ... They have different opinions, and that's driving volatility.

I can't see a sustainable situation here, because there are too many loopholes.

I think the board decided tonight it's time to move forward.

The approach he's taken over the last period has impressed everybody in the FAI and outside it too. The players, I know, have been very happy with the appointment. That's something they've communicated to me.

We are delighted to have reached agreement with the GAA in a very positive, productive and businesslike manner.

We are on the right path. There was huge interest in the position and a lot of applications, but I feel we have the right person to get the best out of the players. This was a collective appointment and we were all on the one hymn sheet with this one.

We want to be careful not to direct the (local government) how to deal with it, but by the same token we didn't want a local government to ignore affordable housing.

We commence looking for a new manager tomorrow morning.

This shows everybody that the laws need to change and people who commit these kinds of crimes need to be held accountable. The archdiocese knows about these predators and they let it go on.

There is a lot of interest out there in this job, which is a high-profile one,

You can implement IM in a more satisfactory way because of improved bandwidth and reduced latency.

What we are seeing is a good old-fashioned backlash against a company that started as a cheerful outsider but has now in effect become part of the establishment. People, particularly the British, love to kick a winner.

Brian deserved to manage Ireland at some stage and he did so,

Equipment vendors are citing 'willingness to pay' surveys to show that people will pay up to 10 per month for mobile TV, but we generally view such surveys skeptically. It's one thing to say that you're willing to pay; it's quite another thing to actually pay.

Anything you can do, I can do better.

There was no fear in their eyes. Every Swiss person I spoke to looked confident. There was no fear of intimidation about coming to Lansdowne Road anymore . . . that wasn't supposed to happen.

There must have been 15 requests for the contract in my inbox this morning, ... It seemed like a good idea to list it.

This may be one of those classic things where both sides are leaving unhappy, so maybe we did the right thing.

I tried contacting him today but I think he was tied up in other phone calls.

Following the meeting, the Board announced that the FAI is to recruit a new international manager to succeed Brian Kerr,

Football is the most popular team sport in Ireland and the interest in a World Cup year would have helped grow the game even further,

It's not about timing but who we get. Our approach will be more head hunting than the interview style of last time.

If your friend is on AOL, and you want to IM with that friend, then you need to be on AOL too. The interoperability between MSN and Yahoo will not change that. Both MSN and Yahoo acknowledge that their users would like interoperability with AOL, but there are no public plans for that at present,

But whether it's a big enough plus to persuade people to migrate to Orange's network is debatable.

If eBay really wanted some VoIP technology it could have bought it cheaper or built it itself, ... If it is not paying for VoIP technology what is it paying for? The brand and the number of registered users.

Google Talk will let you use your PC to talk to other PC users over the Internet? Well OK, MSN will let you do that -- and unlike Google, we might let you talk to people on their phones, too, ... The rivalry between the big Internet portals is becoming increasingly intense. Google pushes into MSN territory in the form of Gmail and Google Talk. MSN pushes back into Google territory with MSN Search, and now with the new services that Teleo will enable. And there's definitely more of this jostling to come.