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May God forgive you and horrific step: The week in quotes

“Then he toasted us and said, ‘May God forgive you for what you’ve done.’”

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IT WAS A week in which the Catholic Church’s cardinals elected a new Pope.

The election of a seemingly modest Pope Francis took the sting out of the big political story in Ireland: the penalty points fiasco involving Luke Ming Flanagan.

Meanwhile the government was busy saying it was going to cut bankers’ pay and address the mortgage arrears crisis.

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

May God forgive you and horrific step: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “You all know that the duty of the Conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother Cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him… but here we are." – Pope Francis addressing crowds in St Peter’s Square after he was elected Pope on Wednesday.

  • Week in quotes

    “So I have the duty to report on these steps so that everyone knows that there are difficulties that could make it impossible to do what was done with Lenin, Ho Chi Minh or Mao Zedong.” – Venezuelan vice president Nicolas Maduro on the dwindling hopes that Hugo Chavez could be embalmed and put on permanent display.

  • Week in quotes

    "He said that if I didn't say yes, he would have to become a priest. Luckily for him, I said no.” – Amalia Damonte on a marriage proposal from future pope Jorge Bergoglio when he was 12.

  • Week in quotes

    “It’s a horrific step for mortgage holders and they have most certainly been thrown into the lion's den.” – David Hall from the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation on the government’s plan to tackle mortgage arrears.

  • Week in quotes

    “In some cases, where the borrower is insolvent and is at the threshold of repossession despite cutting their expenses right back, the Central Bank believes that some form of sustainable debt relief makes sense.” – Financial Regulator Matthew Elderfield on the possibility of some debt relief under the government’s plan to tackle mortgage arrears.

  • Week in quotes

    "It can never be forgotten by management and employees of these banks – both past and present – that without enormous cost to Irish taxpayers these institutions would not have survived and that this needs to be borne in mind during future discussions." - Finance Minister Michael Noonan on proposals to cut bankers’ pay.

  • Week in quotes

    “Then he toasted us and said, ‘May God forgive you for what you’ve done.’” – New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan on what the new Pope told cardinals who elected him during a dinner on Wednesday.

  • Week in quotes

    “I was told several times that I did not have a right to conduct business through Irish, that I should desist and that I would not have been arrested if I hadn’t spoken in Irish.” – A complainant to the language commissioner on being arrested by gardaí for speaking Irish after being pulled over in relation to a road traffic matter.

  • Week in quotes

    “Not only is there a cohort of gardaí who are going around asking people do they want penalty points cancelled, it appears there is a franchise system going on whereby if you are cosy with the senior garda then you too can have people’s offences quashed.” – Luke Ming Flanagan on the penalty points debacle which he spent much of the week trying to explain.

  • Week in quotes

    “I utterly reject his allegations that I ‘sorted out his penalty points issue for him’.” – Roscommon County Manager Frank Dawson on allegations he got Flanagan’s penalty points quashed.
  • “You all know that the duty of the Conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother Cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him… but here we are.
  • “So I have the duty to report on these steps so that everyone knows that there are difficulties that could make it impossible to do what was done with Lenin, Ho Chi Minh or Mao Zedong.” – Venezuelan vice president Nicolas Maduro on the dwindling hopes that Hugo Chavez could be embalmed and put on permanent display.
  • “It’s a horrific step for mortgage holders and they have most certainly been thrown into the lion's den.” – David Hall from the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation on the government’s plan to tackle mortgage arrears.
  • “In some cases, where the borrower is insolvent and is at the threshold of repossession despite cutting their expenses right back, the Central Bank believes that some form of sustainable debt relief makes sense.” – Financial Regulator Matthew Elderfield on the possibility of some debt relief under the government’s plan to tackle mortgage arrears.
  • “Then he toasted us and said, ‘May God forgive you for what you’ve done.’” – New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan on what the new Pope told cardinals who elected him during a dinner on Wednesday.
  • “I was told several times that I did not have a right to conduct business through Irish, that I should desist and that I would not have been arrested if I hadn’t spoken in Irish.” – A complainant to the language commissioner on being arrested by gardaí for speaking Irish after being pulled over in relation to a road traffic matter.
  • “Not only is there a cohort of gardaí who are going around asking people do they want penalty points cancelled, it appears there is a franchise system going on whereby if you are cosy with the senior garda then you too can have people’s offences quashed.” – Luke Ming Flanagan on the penalty points debacle which he spent much of the week trying to explain.
  • “I utterly reject his allegations that I ‘sorted out his penalty points issue for him’.” – Roscommon County Manager Frank Dawson on allegations he got Flanagan’s penalty points quashed.

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