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Proper title and people’s bedrooms: The week in quotes

“We also need to stay out of people’s bedrooms. The party that is for small government shouldn’t be over-reaching into people’s private lives.”

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IT WAS A week in which Irish meat producers made headlines around the world for all the wrong reasons.

While that news came as a bolt out of the blue, Oprah’s planned interview with Lance Armstrong was a scheduled (and heavily publicised) coup that had everyone wondering what he would admit to.

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

Proper title and people’s bedrooms: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “It was brought to our attention and we rang the person here on the ground and asked in future to refer to him by his proper title – Sinn Féin president and TD for Louth.” – A Sinn Féin spokesperson confirms the party asked broadcaster CNN to refer to Gerry Adams by his current title after a report described him as a “former IRA paramilitary commander”.

  • Week in quotes

    “We also need to stay out of people’s bedrooms. The party that is for small government shouldn’t be over-reaching into people’s private lives.” – Former California governor and Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger on what the Republican Party needs to do during a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ session. (Yui Mok/PA Wire)

  • Week in quotes

    “I would say he did not come clean in the manner that I expected.” – Oprah Winfrey on her interview with disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Harpo Studios, Inc., George Burns, File)

  • Week in Quotes

    During his interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong, reflecting on his past and what people must have thought of him: "Look at this arrogant prick." (AP Photo/Courtesy of Harpo Studios, Inc., George Burns, File)

  • Week in Quotes

    On the hostage crisis in Algeria, British Prime Minister David Cameron said: "It is a very dangerous, very uncertain, a very fluid situation and I think we have to prepare ourselves for the possibility of bad news ahead." (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

  • Week in Quotes

    Responding to comments by MEPs about its carry-on luggage policy, Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said: Ryanair's one carry-on bag rule cannot be changed for safety reasons. It would be helpful if these MEPs made some basic attempt to understand Ryanair's safety and low fare policies before making false and inaccurate claims in the European parliament." (Paul Ward/PA Wire)

  • Week in quotes

    “The products we have identified as containing horse DNA and/or pig DNA do not pose any food safety risk and consumers should not be worried.” – The Food Safety Authority of Ireland confirms that traces of horse DNA have been found in some meat products being sold in Irish supermarkets.

  • Week in Quotes

    On his defence of Lance Armstrong before his Oprah interview: "Let me put it like this: I wanted to believe him. I'm a non druggie myself in all its aspects so I don't go in for that at all,” he told Newstalk’s lunchtime show on Friday. (Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

  • Week in quotes

    “The Irish people made a good decision – in those 40 years we have travelled well and far, we have never looked back. But our Atlantic island has long been at the ‘heart’ of Europe.” – Taoiseach Enda Kenny address the European Parliament this week and hails Ireland’s decision to join the EEC, now EU. (Barry Cronin/ PA Wire)

  • Week in quotes

    “This is an attack on the dignity of work and the respect in which public services are held.” – The trade union Unite says it will oppose any cuts brought to the table in talks on a successor to the Croke Park deal on public sector pay and reform. (Niall carson/PA)
  • “It was brought to our attention and we rang the person here on the ground and asked in future to refer to him by his proper title – Sinn Féin president and TD for Louth.” – A Sinn Féin spokesperson confirms the party asked broadcaster CNN to refer to Gerry Adams by his current title after a report described him as a “former IRA paramilitary commander”.
  • “We also need to stay out of people’s bedrooms. The party that is for small government shouldn’t be over-reaching into people’s private lives.” – Former California governor and Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger on what the Republican Party needs to do during a Reddit ‘Ask Me Anything’ session. (Yui Mok/PA Wire)
  • “I would say he did not come clean in the manner that I expected.” – Oprah Winfrey on her interview with disgraced former cyclist Lance Armstrong. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Harpo Studios, Inc., George Burns, File)
  • During his interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong, reflecting on his past and what people must have thought of him:
  • On the hostage crisis in Algeria, British Prime Minister David Cameron said:
  • Responding to comments by MEPs about its carry-on luggage policy, Ryanair’s Stephen McNamara said: Ryanair's one carry-on bag rule cannot be changed for safety reasons. It would be helpful if these MEPs made some basic attempt to understand Ryanair's safety and low fare policies before making false and inaccurate claims in the European parliament.
  • “The products we have identified as containing horse DNA and/or pig DNA do not pose any food safety risk and consumers should not be worried.” – The Food Safety Authority of Ireland confirms that traces of horse DNA have been found in some meat products being sold in Irish supermarkets.
  • On his defence of Lance Armstrong before his Oprah interview:
  • “The Irish people made a good decision – in those 40 years we have travelled well and far, we have never looked back. But our Atlantic island has long been at the ‘heart’ of Europe.” – Taoiseach Enda Kenny address the European Parliament this week and hails Ireland’s decision to join the EEC, now EU. (Barry Cronin/ PA Wire)
  • “This is an attack on the dignity of work and the respect in which public services are held.” – The trade union Unite says it will oppose any cuts brought to the table in talks on a successor to the Croke Park deal on public sector pay and reform. (Niall carson/PA)

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