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Awesome people and political corruption: The week in quotes

“I was honest with the Tribunal and I gave it truthful evidence and I reject completely any suggestion that I did otherwise.”

25/03/12 4,337 Views 3 Comments

IT WAS A week in which we learned that former taoiseach Bertie Ahern lied on numerous occasions as the final report of the Mahon Tribunal sent shockwaves across Irish politics.

Before that there  was yet more said on the household charge, Enda Kenny was in the White House and Australian and Irish people mourned the loss of the great Jim Stynes.

That and more, it’s the week in quotes:

Awesome people and political corruption: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “I was honest with the Tribunal and I gave it truthful evidence and I reject completely any suggestion that I did otherwise.” – former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern rejects the findings of the Mahon Tribunal that he lied in his evidence to it.

  • Week in quotes

    “Corruption, and in particular political corruption, is a deeply corrosive and destructive force. While frequently perceived as a victimless crime, in reality its victims are too many to be identified individually.” – The Mahon Tribunal’s final report is damning.

  • Week in quotes

    "Achievements like the Good Friday Agreement are real and enduring but they cannot absolve Bertie Ahern from facing the implications of this Report." – Micheál Martin is critical of his former leader after the Mahon Tribunal's findings are published.

  • Week in quotes

    “Ireland appears an outward and forward-looking country, but when it comes to recognising and dealing with racism, it is very weak.” – Leading human rights lawyer Imran Khan slams the Irish government’s approach to racism in the country today.

  • Week in quotes

    “Rather than trying to bully the people who voted them in, the Government should instead think through a fairer way to impose that tax on property.” – UNITE’s Jimmy Kelly leads calls for a boycott of the household charge.

  • Week in quotes

    “€200 million is a small amount of money for something which is priceless” Colm MacEochaidh, a barrister whose intervention in part led to the establishment of the Mahon Tribunal, defends its cost.

  • Week in quotes

    “Last May, Ireland was visited by two awesome people. President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II.” – high praise for two high-profile visitors to Ireland last year by Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Washington on his St Patrick’s visit.

  • Week in quotes

    "With a great sense of pain and shame, it must be acknowledged that within the Christian community innocent young people were abused by clerics and Religious to whose care they had been entrusted, while those who should have exercised vigilance often failed to do so effectively." – officials from the Vatican deliver their recommendations on Catholic Church reforms in Ireland.

  • Week in quotes

    “There’s a certain deep sadness right across Victoria, Australia and other parts of the world today.” - the death of Aussie Rules star and former GAA minor Jim Stynes is mourned by Victorian premier Ted Baillieu and many others.

  • Week in quotes

    “Delusional on a Marie Antoinette scale.” – Socialist TD Joe Higgins does not share the government’s view that most of the 83 per cent of people who have not paid the household charge will do so before the 31 March deadline.
  • “I was honest with the Tribunal and I gave it truthful evidence and I reject completely any suggestion that I did otherwise.” – former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern rejects the findings of the Mahon Tribunal that he lied in his evidence to it.
  • “Corruption, and in particular political corruption, is a deeply corrosive and destructive force. While frequently perceived as a victimless crime, in reality its victims are too many to be identified individually.” – The Mahon Tribunal’s final report is damning.
  • “Ireland appears an outward and forward-looking country, but when it comes to recognising and dealing with racism, it is very weak.” – Leading human rights lawyer Imran Khan slams the Irish government’s approach to racism in the country today.
  • “Rather than trying to bully the people who voted them in, the Government should instead think through a fairer way to impose that tax on property.” – UNITE’s Jimmy Kelly leads calls for a boycott of the household charge.
  • “€200 million is a small amount of money for something which is priceless” Colm MacEochaidh, a barrister whose intervention in part led to the establishment of the Mahon Tribunal, defends its cost.
  • “Last May, Ireland was visited by two awesome people. President Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth II.” – high praise for two high-profile visitors to Ireland last year by Taoiseach Enda Kenny in Washington on his St Patrick’s visit.
  • “There’s a certain deep sadness right across Victoria, Australia and other parts of the world today.” - the death of Aussie Rules star and former GAA minor Jim Stynes is mourned by Victorian premier Ted Baillieu and many others.
  • “Delusional on a Marie Antoinette scale.” – Socialist TD Joe Higgins does not share the government’s view that most of the 83 per cent of people who have not paid the household charge will do so before the 31 March deadline.

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