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Urinated all over this house and burned at the stake: The week in quotes

“The Taoiseach and your own party have urinated all over this house.”

IT WAS A week in which the government published the draft version of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill.

Elsewhere in the political world, Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness had to weather a storm over wanting to travel with his wife when he was a minister, while the world learned more about one of the biggest leaks in US history.

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

Urinated all over this house and burned at the stake: The week in quotes
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Pics: Photocall Ireland and Press Association

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