I've always given 110% for Northern Ireland, for my…

When I go home every night, I can look in the mirror and say I have given 110 per cent for Newcastle United. If…

— Alan Shearer

I was in and about the Northern Ireland team, I was a young boy, an up and coming star in the team!

— Kyle Lafferty

I grew up in Northern Ireland, didn't have a lot of money and getting over to Glasgow to watch a game was probably a…

— Kyle Lafferty

Around the world, people look to Ireland as a country where it doesn't matter where you come from but where you want to go.

— Leo Varadkar

“We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I was a…

— Jeanette Winterson

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

— Hugh Leonard

[Ireland is a] country peopled by peasants, priests and pixies.

— Robert Kilroy-Silk

We are the Conservative and Unionist party. No Conservative would do anything to harm the union, and that crucially includes Northern Ireland.

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

In Northern Ireland, people said there would never be a solution. But once people begin to have the political will and force their governments…

— Mairead Corrigan

The external reality and inner dynamic of happenings in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1974 were symptomatic of change, violent change admittedly, but change…

— Seamus Heaney

The basis on which the Good Friday agreement was constructed was in addressing those problems in the history of Northern Ireland, the social and…

— John Reid

I believe we've spent many years trying to bring about talks which have all the Parties in Northern Ireland involved so that there'd be…

— Dick Spring

When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across…

— Peter Hain

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of…

— John Hume

I nominate the Reverend Ian Paisley for the position of First Minister of northern Ireland

— Gerry Adams