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Inherent wickedness and tweak my ears: The week in quotes

“Thank you very much Mary for that introduction and you can er, tweak my ears any time.”

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IT WAS A week in which Ireland said goodbye to the analogue television signal and the digital switchover passed in the main without incident.

The Jimmy Savile paedophilia scandal rumbled on, the race for the US presidency hotted-up and Enda Kenny won a prestigious award in Germany.

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

Inherent wickedness and tweak my ears: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?” – In a blog that went viral, Special Olympics athlete John Franklin Stephens reacts to conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s reference to Barack Obama as a ‘retard’.

  • Week in quotes

    “These meetings serve no useful purpose whatsoever. Indeed, their only motivation is quite clearly to provide some veneer of consultation.” – Siptu president Jack O’Connor says that talks with the Troika are “at best, pointless”.

  • Week in quotes

    “If you have received a letter in error, tell us. We will change things.” – The Local Government Management Agency’s Paul McSweeney admits that tens of thousands of householders may have received household charge warning letters in error.

  • Week in quotes

    “In these difficult times, Europe benefits from the open, outward looking character of the Irish State and people and from the calibre of its Prime Minister, Enda Kenny.” – German magazine publishers’ body, VDZ, gives one reason for awarding the Taoiseach its ‘European of the Year’ gong.

  • Week in quotes

    “Here we have an account of contemporaneous conversation in which Norman Bettison boasts that he is engaged in a South Yorkshire Police plot to fit up the Liverpool fans and deflect blame from the force.” – Using parliamentary privilege, British Labour MP Maria Eagle lays out new allegations about the most senior serving officer implicated in the Hillsborough disaster, Sir Norman Bettison. He resigned later in the week, denying the new claims.

  • Week in quotes

    “I run the UCI, I’m President of the UCI, I chair the UCI board meetings and I run the show.” – Irishman Pat McQuaid defends his actions amid continuing controversy over the Lance Armstrong doping scandal which saw him stripped of his seven Tour de France titles this week.

  • Week in quotes

    “You know, kids have good instincts. They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bullshitter, I can tell'.” – What Barack Obama reportedly said about Mitt Romney in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

  • Week in quotes

    “This is the worst I’ve ever seen because first of all the inherent wickedness at the heart of all this is so appalling.” – The chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, on the Jimmy Savile paedophilia scandal.

  • Week in quotes

    “It is a bit startling to achieve global recognition (if that's the right word) before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom." - Pippa Middleton on her new found fame.

  • Week in quotes

    "Thank you very much Mary for that introduction and you can er, tweak my ears any time". – Communications Minister Pat Rabbitte heralds the digital switchover and RTÉ presenter Mary Kennedy in a slightly awkward exchange.
  • “Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?” – In a blog that went viral, Special Olympics athlete John Franklin Stephens reacts to conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s reference to Barack Obama as a ‘retard’.
  • “These meetings serve no useful purpose whatsoever. Indeed, their only motivation is quite clearly to provide some veneer of consultation.” – Siptu president Jack O’Connor says that talks with the Troika are “at best, pointless”.
  • “If you have received a letter in error, tell us. We will change things.” – The Local Government Management Agency’s Paul McSweeney admits that tens of thousands of householders may have received household charge warning letters in error.
  • “In these difficult times, Europe benefits from the open, outward looking character of the Irish State and people and from the calibre of its Prime Minister, Enda Kenny.” – German magazine publishers’ body, VDZ, gives one reason for awarding the Taoiseach its ‘European of the Year’ gong.
  • “Here we have an account of contemporaneous conversation in which Norman Bettison boasts that he is engaged in a South Yorkshire Police plot to fit up the Liverpool fans and deflect blame from the force.” – Using parliamentary privilege, British Labour MP Maria Eagle lays out new allegations about the most senior serving officer implicated in the Hillsborough disaster, Sir Norman Bettison. He resigned later in the week, denying the new claims.
  • “I run the UCI, I’m President of the UCI, I chair the UCI board meetings and I run the show.” – Irishman Pat McQuaid defends his actions amid continuing controversy over the Lance Armstrong doping scandal which saw him stripped of his seven Tour de France titles this week.
  • “You know, kids have good instincts. They look at the other guy and say, 'Well, that's a bullshitter, I can tell'.” – What Barack Obama reportedly said about Mitt Romney in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine.
  • “This is the worst I’ve ever seen because first of all the inherent wickedness at the heart of all this is so appalling.” – The chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, on the Jimmy Savile paedophilia scandal.
  • “It is a bit startling to achieve global recognition (if that's the right word) before the age of 30 on account of your sister, your brother-in-law and your bottom.

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