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Legitimate rape and nonsense: The week in quotes

“Sat by some bins, had a cry and rang my mammy.”

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IT WAS A week in which the subject of rape was much discussed after some ill-informed remarks from a US senate hopeful and controversial comments from the MP George Galloway.

Taxi drivers at Dublin Airport were causing chaos for passengers in a dispute over a reduction in parking spaces and the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

All that and more, the week in quotes:

Legitimate rape and nonsense: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “It’s not new news and it doesn’t make me any happier to find out that the Central Bank is now agreeing with us but it is bad out there at the moment.” – Mark Fielding from ISME on the Central Bank report which indicates that Irish banks have the second lowest approval level for loans to small businesses in the euro.

  • Week in quotes

    “I regret the fact that nine people were stabbed, most definitely. And it’s a tragedy there were two fatalities over drug abuse. But no, I don’t regret doing the show.” - MCD chief Denis Desmond on the events at the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park in July.

  • Week in quotes

    “We haven’t got the right to tell people to go back to work.” – David McGuinness from Tacsaí Timonaí na hEireann on the dispute between taxi drivers and Dublin Airport which saw drivers refusing to pick up passengers.

  • Week in quotes

    “Sat by some bins, had a cry and rang my mammy.” – Irish comedian Aisling Bea on her reaction to winning the 'So You Think You’re Funny Award' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

  • Week in quotes

    “I had just finished serving yet another gargantuan round of pints plus a mineral water for the Tánaiste, Mary Coughlan, when I heard a voice say 'The Taoiseach would like some cigarettes.'" – A barman at the Galway hotel where the infamous Fianna Fáil think-in of 2010 took place tells Hot Press about his experiences with Brian Cowen.

  • Week in quotes

    “He hugged her to cover her up. He went over to be the gentleman and said, ‘I’ll shield you. I’ll protect you. I won’t let them see you’… There were no complaints from her.” – One partygoer explains what Prince Harry was doing in one of those now infamous naked Vegas pictures.

  • Week in quotes

    “The toll this has taken on my family, and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today – finished with this nonsense.” – Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong decides he no longer wants to fight drug charges effectively meaning that he will be stripped of his titles.

  • Week in quotes

    "Now we won't hear about him for quite a while. Now we can have peace and quiet." – A relative of a victim of the Utoya shootings last year on the sentencing of Anders Behring Breivik to 21 years in prison for the massacre.

  • Week in quotes

    "The mistake I made was in the words I said, not in the heart I hold. I ask for your forgiveness." – US congressman and senate hopeful Todd Akin apologises after he said ‘legitimate rape’ rarely leads to pregnancy.

  • Week in quotes

    “Rape is rape, and the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn’t make sense to the American people and certainly doesn’t make sense to me.” – US President Barack Obama slams Akin for his comments.
  • “It’s not new news and it doesn’t make me any happier to find out that the Central Bank is now agreeing with us but it is bad out there at the moment.” – Mark Fielding from ISME on the Central Bank report which indicates that Irish banks have the second lowest approval level for loans to small businesses in the euro.
  • “I regret the fact that nine people were stabbed, most definitely. And it’s a tragedy there were two fatalities over drug abuse. But no, I don’t regret doing the show.” - MCD chief Denis Desmond on the events at the Swedish House Mafia concert in the Phoenix Park in July.
  • “We haven’t got the right to tell people to go back to work.” – David McGuinness from Tacsaí Timonaí na hEireann on the dispute between taxi drivers and Dublin Airport which saw drivers refusing to pick up passengers.
  • “Sat by some bins, had a cry and rang my mammy.” – Irish comedian Aisling Bea on her reaction to winning the 'So You Think You’re Funny Award' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
  • “I had just finished serving yet another gargantuan round of pints plus a mineral water for the Tánaiste, Mary Coughlan, when I heard a voice say 'The Taoiseach would like some cigarettes.'
  • “He hugged her to cover her up. He went over to be the gentleman and said, ‘I’ll shield you. I’ll protect you. I won’t let them see you’… There were no complaints from her.” – One partygoer explains what Prince Harry was doing in one of those now infamous naked Vegas pictures.
  • “The toll this has taken on my family, and my work for our foundation and on me leads me to where I am today – finished with this nonsense.” – Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong decides he no longer wants to fight drug charges effectively meaning that he will be stripped of his titles.
  • “Rape is rape, and the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we are talking about doesn’t make sense to the American people and certainly doesn’t make sense to me.” – US President Barack Obama slams Akin for his comments.

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