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Week in quotes

'I'm after finding a helicopter above in a hay shed in Mullingar': The week in quotes

Here’s what was said and who said what this week.

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I appreciate that love is, of course, blind but it is nonetheless disturbing to note how frequently applicants become regarded as ‘a good catch’ shortly after being served with deportation orders.

The words of Justice Richard Humphreys, who called on the State to make efforts to combat sham marriages.

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I left her office spinning. I walked around the city and ended up in a park. It was raining. People were going to work, and I sat alone beside a tree and cried and cried. After about 45 minutes of sitting at this tree, I got in touch with my partner and explained what was happening. He was in shock.

One reader told us her story about having to travel to the UK for an abortion after her baby was diagnosed with a debilitating illness.

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Cheaters are cheaters.

Ireland’s Fiona Doyle speaking to The Irish Times fell just short of a place in the 100m breaststroke semi-finals after her eighth place finish and 20th overall left her 0.26 seconds outside the top 16. Russian swimmer Yulia Efimova, who tested positive five times previously for banned substances, won the semifinal.

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I have written a letter to the DPP to ask her to charge me so that I may have the chance of a fair trial.

Ian Bailey said he is willing to go on trial for the murder of French film-maker Sophie Toscan du Plantier in Ireland after it emerged that French police are likely to issue a European Arrest Warrant in the near future.

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I’m not talking about opinions, I’m talking about science. What science background does Danny Healy-Rae have? Yes, he’s entitled to an opinion, but not a dangerous opinion.

Professor John Sodeau of University College Cork (UCC) has criticised Danny Healy Rae’s view on climate change, calling it “nonsense” and “the utter depth of rubbish a politician could speak”.

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By the way, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.

Donald Trump’s controversial comments on Hillary Clinton led to him being questioned by the FBI.

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I miss my friends so much, I have known them since we started school together at four years of age. We had grown up together and now my birthday will always be their anniversary.

Aoife Beary, who survived the balcony collapse in Berkeley that killed six young people last year, has spoken out about how much she misses her friends.

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I’m after finding a helicopter … Do you know where I found it? Above in a hay shed in Mullingar. And she’s 40 foot long, right … I’ll get a double bed into it no problem.

David McGowan, the man who sailed a Boeing 767 up the west coast of Ireland, is at it again.

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We’re dreading going home now because Mick Conlan said he’d box the head off us if we didn’t get the gold.

Ireland’s history-making Olympic medalists Gary and Paul O’Donovan after their silver medal in the men’s lightweight double sculls rowing final in Rio.