IT WAS A week when McNulty-gate showed no signs of abating, there was a verdict in the inquest into the death of Dhara Kivlehan, and things weren’t easy for Irish Water.
All that, and more, it’s the week in quotes:
I’m not at liberty to say who mentioned his name to me and because that’s a Fine Gael matter.
Minister for Arts Heather Humphreys on McNulty’s nomination.
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Dhara was a very professional lady, she was very dignified. Hopefully she’s looking down proud.
Michael Kivlehan after an inquest into his wife, Dhara’s death returned a verdict of medical misadventure, which he hopes will help prevent a similar incident happening in future.
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This story is unravelling as it gets made up.
Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin on the frequent twists and turns in the John McNulty saga.
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The Taoiseach’s jobs-for-the-boys debacle has added to [people's] disillusionment, making Fine Gael look as grubby as Fianna Fáil.
Independent Wexford TD Mick Wallace slammed the government’s recent actions.
If I thought that he genuinely felt remorse and I felt that he was sorry [I could forgive], but I know that he is a manipulative, cunning person and is incapable of remorse. I know he’d say he was sorry as a means to an end.
The mother of murdered Rachel Callally said that she would forgive her daughter’s killer, Joe O’Reilly (pictured), if he showed remorse.
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You tell me one party there who doesn’t look after their own. I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s politics.
Former Irish Water director Hilary Quinlan’s response to The Irish Times after it was revealed that he was hired as Junior Minister Paudie Coffey’s (pictured, right) private driver.
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If someone is dumb enough as a celebrity to take a nude photo of themselves and put it online, they surely can’t expect us to protect them.
The EU Commissioner Designate of Digital Economy and Society Günther Oettinger wasn’t very sympathetic to celebrities who had private photos leaked.
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‘It destroyed me, my career and my family.’
Sergeant Maurice McCabe on how he was treated after becoming a whisteblower.
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I smoked a bit of weed and hash at the time but when she died, two days before Christmas seven years ago, and I ended up on the heroin Christmas Day seven years ago.
Jonathan, 25 and homeless, shared his story of how he ended up on the streets.
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