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Box ticking and trees in the city: The week in quotes

“Minister, I urge you, I think they should be arrested.”

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IT WAS A week in which two men were acquitted of the murder of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius, while at home the Health Minister James Reilly was under pressure.

The trial of Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic heard harrowing testimony and there was plenty of fallout from the violence and trouble which marred the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park.

All that and more, it’s the week in quotes:

Box ticking and trees in the city: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “There is not that many trees in the city so it would be a shame to lose one of them.” – Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell explains her reason for submitting a parliamentary question about a tree in a “distressed state” at Leinster House.

  • Week in quotes

    “I realize my autism comments were insensitive, however it was not my intention to offend anyone and for this I apologize.” – rapper 50 Cent apologises for comments he made about autism on Twitter, comments which led to a planned appearance at Dundrum Town Centre being cancelled.

  • Week in quotes

    “Your honors, after being there that night, there is no doubt in my mind they were all killed.” – at the trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, survivor Elvedin Pasic gives emotional testimony about the fate of his father whom he was separated from during the Bosnian war.

  • Week in quotes

    “Minister, I urge you, I think they should be arrested.” - In the Dáil, Labour TD Eamonn Maloney says that the promoters of the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park should be arrested.

  • Week in quotes

    “I thought he was accusing me of calling him a black c***. I was very angry and I was upset. I replied, ‘A black c***? You f****** k******d’.” – A court in London hears some colourful language from the former England captain John Terry at his racism trial before he is found not guilty on Friday.

  • Week in quotes

    “After waiting eighteen months in search of justice for Michaela and following the endurance of seven harrowing weeks of this trial, there are no words, which can describe the sense of devastation and desolation now felt by both families.” – The family of Michaela McAreavey react to the acquittal of the two men on trial for her murder.

  • Week in quotes

    “You’re not going to pressurise both me as a citizen or as a leader of government into a box-ticking exercise here to say: ‘line them up now’ because I speak from this seat as government.” – Taoiseach Enda Kenny will not be drawn on whether or not he favours gay marriage despite repeated questions from Fianna Fail’s Micheál Martin.

  • Week in quotes

    “I do not have a conflict of interest. I have a single interest and that is the best interests of older persons and patients under our health services.” – Health Minister James Reilly denies any conflict of interest amid controversy over his involvement in a nursing home which led to him appearing on a debt defaulters list.

  • Week in quotes

    “Unfortunately, anti-social behaviour has become more and more part of our daily society with no town or village across the country escaping such conduct.” – Concert promoters MCD respond to the nine stabbings and scenes of violence at the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park last weekend.

  • Week in quotes

    "If we have new evidence which did not arise before, I am not completely discarding the possibility of a new trial." - Mauritian DPP, Satyajit Boolell, says he is not discarding the possibility of a new trial over the murder of Michaela.
  • “There is not that many trees in the city so it would be a shame to lose one of them.” – Fine Gael TD Olivia Mitchell explains her reason for submitting a parliamentary question about a tree in a “distressed state” at Leinster House.
  • “I realize my autism comments were insensitive, however it was not my intention to offend anyone and for this I apologize.” – rapper 50 Cent apologises for comments he made about autism on Twitter, comments which led to a planned appearance at Dundrum Town Centre being cancelled.
  • “Your honors, after being there that night, there is no doubt in my mind they were all killed.” – at the trial of former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, survivor Elvedin Pasic gives emotional testimony about the fate of his father whom he was separated from during the Bosnian war.
  • “Minister, I urge you, I think they should be arrested.” - In the Dáil, Labour TD Eamonn Maloney says that the promoters of the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park should be arrested.
  • “I thought he was accusing me of calling him a black c***. I was very angry and I was upset. I replied, ‘A black c***? You f****** k******d’.” – A court in London hears some colourful language from the former England captain John Terry at his racism trial before he is found not guilty on Friday.
  • “After waiting eighteen months in search of justice for Michaela and following the endurance of seven harrowing weeks of this trial, there are no words, which can describe the sense of devastation and desolation now felt by both families.” – The family of Michaela McAreavey react to the acquittal of the two men on trial for her murder.
  • “You’re not going to pressurise both me as a citizen or as a leader of government into a box-ticking exercise here to say: ‘line them up now’ because I speak from this seat as government.” – Taoiseach Enda Kenny will not be drawn on whether or not he favours gay marriage despite repeated questions from Fianna Fail’s Micheál Martin.
  • “I do not have a conflict of interest. I have a single interest and that is the best interests of older persons and patients under our health services.” – Health Minister James Reilly denies any conflict of interest amid controversy over his involvement in a nursing home which led to him appearing on a debt defaulters list.
  • “Unfortunately, anti-social behaviour has become more and more part of our daily society with no town or village across the country escaping such conduct.” – Concert promoters MCD respond to the nine stabbings and scenes of violence at the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park last weekend.

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