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The smell of Spring and a begging ass: The week in quotes

“All manner of nasty and seemingly idle minds…said whatever thing first came into their vacant, idle and meddlesome heads.”

IT WAS A WEEK during which the beloved Commander Chris Hadfield returned to gravity and Angelina Jolie inspired with revelations about her elective double mastectomy.

Back home, Croke Park II and proposed abortion legislation debates rumbled on but it was the smaller stories that had us talking – the return of an invaluable relic in Meath and a personal attack from one TD to another.

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

The smell of Spring and a begging ass: The week in quotes
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