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Creepy feeling and red lines: The week in quotes

“It’s a rather creepy feeling that Ireland’s neutrality would be ignored. But then, that’s Hitler for you.”

30/09/12 9,568 Views 2 Comments

IT WAS A week in which the family of Jill Meagher had to come to terms with her terrible death in Melbourne, Australia.

Back here in Ireland Environment Minister Phil Hogan came in for criticism over a constituency matter while the Health Minister James Reilly was embroiled in yet more controversy as his junior minister Róisín Shortall resigned.

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

Creepy feeling and red lines: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “Some of the decisions announced in the budget appear to cause endless problems in implementation. This should not be the case.” – Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness on the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General.

  • Week in quotes

    “Jill wouldn’t want us triple locking the door and installing closed-circuit televisions everywhere as if we live under siege, because that’s not what it’s about. So, this morning we will pay our respect to our friend, our colleague, and there is a very empty space in our office this morning.” – ABC presenter John Faine pays tribute to Jill Meagher, the Irish woman who was found dead in a shallow grave in Melbourne this week.

  • Week in quotes

    “It’s a rather creepy feeling that Ireland’s neutrality would be ignored. But then, that’s Hitler for you.” – Auctioneer Richard Westwood-Brookes on the dossier that revealed Hitler’s plans to invade Ireland.

  • Week in quotes

    “Red lines don’t lead to war, red lines prevent war.” – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu urges the international community to take action to bring an end to Iran’s reported attempts to build a nuclear bomb.

  • Week in quotes

    "As a politician and as a father I decided ‘enough now no more’." – Taoiseach Enda Kenny speaking in the Dáil this week on his government’s decision to hold the children’s rights referendum.

  • Week in quotes

    “I’ve explained my position quite well, I am at the Ploughing Championships now and I have engagements here so thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify my position.” – Environment Minister Phil Hogan cuts short a conversation with a local radio station amid the furore over a letter he sent about a Traveller family to constituents.

  • Week in quotes

    “It is no longer possible for me to fulfil my role as Minister of State for Primary Care because of lack of support for the reforms in the Programme for Government and the values which underpin it.” – Róisín Shortall resigns as Primary Care Minister.

  • Week in quotes

    “Pressure’s only for tyres.” – Shortly after learning of Shortall’s resignation Health Minister James Reilly seems unperturbed at an event in Balbriggan.

  • Week in quotes

    “It does look like it. I don’t know if it is or not.” – Transport Minister Leo Varadkar says Reilly’s decision to allocate two sites in his constituency for primary care centres looks like stroke politics.

  • Week in quotes

    "I appreciate Deputy McDonald’s interest in country and western, but I’m no Tammy Wynette and I don’t think Deputy McDonald is either." – Social Protection Minister Joan Burton responds to Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald during a tense Leaders’ Questions this week.
  • “Some of the decisions announced in the budget appear to cause endless problems in implementation. This should not be the case.” – Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness on the latest report of the Comptroller and Auditor General.
  • “Jill wouldn’t want us triple locking the door and installing closed-circuit televisions everywhere as if we live under siege, because that’s not what it’s about. So, this morning we will pay our respect to our friend, our colleague, and there is a very empty space in our office this morning.” – ABC presenter John Faine pays tribute to Jill Meagher, the Irish woman who was found dead in a shallow grave in Melbourne this week.
  • “It’s a rather creepy feeling that Ireland’s neutrality would be ignored. But then, that’s Hitler for you.” – Auctioneer Richard Westwood-Brookes on the dossier that revealed Hitler’s plans to invade Ireland.
  • “Red lines don’t lead to war, red lines prevent war.” – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu urges the international community to take action to bring an end to Iran’s reported attempts to build a nuclear bomb.
  • “I’ve explained my position quite well, I am at the Ploughing Championships now and I have engagements here so thank you for giving me the opportunity to clarify my position.” – Environment Minister Phil Hogan cuts short a conversation with a local radio station amid the furore over a letter he sent about a Traveller family to constituents.
  • “It is no longer possible for me to fulfil my role as Minister of State for Primary Care because of lack of support for the reforms in the Programme for Government and the values which underpin it.” – Róisín Shortall resigns as Primary Care Minister.
  • “Pressure’s only for tyres.” – Shortly after learning of Shortall’s resignation Health Minister James Reilly seems unperturbed at an event in Balbriggan.
  • “It does look like it. I don’t know if it is or not.” – Transport Minister Leo Varadkar says Reilly’s decision to allocate two sites in his constituency for primary care centres looks like stroke politics.

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