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Dropping like flies and dominant ideology: The week in quotes

“There is nothing so blind as the blindness imposed by a dominant ideology, and a subservient State. A blindness that can subvert what our human intuition knows to be right and wrong.”

24/02/13 3,941 Views 4 Comments

IT WAS A week in which the women of the Magdalene Laundries finally got the State apology they had fought so hard and waited so long for.

In South Africa, Oscar Pistorius’ bail hearing dominated and here in Ireland the talks on a new pay deal for public sector workers continued to be fraught with no certain outcome.

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

Dropping like flies and dominant ideology: The week in quotes
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  • Week in quotes

    “There is nothing so blind as the blindness imposed by a dominant ideology, and a subservient State. A blindness that can subvert what our human intuition knows to be right and wrong.” – Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore in his own statement to the Dáil on the publication of the McAleese report into the Magdalene Laundries.

  • Week in quotes

    “I had no intention to kill my girlfriend.” – A court hears South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ first public comments in the wake of the shooting dead of his girlfriend at his home in Pretoria. He stands accused of her premeditated murder.

  • Week in quotes

    “Labour, they’re nearly dropping like flies, [once] a week it’s nearly man overboard.” – Independent TD Clare Daly on the problems facing the junior coalition partner.

  • Week in quotes

    “Therefore, I, as Taoiseach, on behalf of the State, the government and our citizens deeply regret and apologise unreservedly to all those women for the hurt that was done to them, and for any stigma they suffered, as a result of the time they spent in a Magdalene Laundry.” – Taoiseach Enda Kenny issues a full apology to the women of the Magdalene Laundries.

  • Week in quotes

    “Playing with Mr. President was pretty cool. He’s just a wonderful person to be around. And we won.” – Golfer Tiger Woods on his round of golf with US President Barack Obama

  • Week in quotes

    “We are now left without a full picture of what happened. We would have liked Kieron Ducie and Ann Corcoran to take the opportunity of the court case to give an explanation but they did not.” – The mother of Katy French, the model who died six years ago, says it is hard "for the family to accept" the suspended jail sentences given to two people who pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide drugs on the night French collapsed and later died.

  • Week in quotes

    "As Ronald Reagan used to say, 'We took one for the team.' And I think the team owes us now." - Finance Minister Michael Noonan told Bloomberg TV that he believes Ireland deserves help from Europe to cut the ties between sovereign and banking debt.

  • Week in quotes

    "You need petrol in the tank just as much as you need morale in your belly." - John Parker, president of the Garda Representative Association, as its members embarked on a work-to-rule style industrial action in protest at proposed cuts to Garda pay.

  • Week in quotes

    "The recent resignation by Pope Ratzinger is the best thing about his papacy." - Alex Gibney, director of Oscar-nominated doc Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God, in an interview with TheJournal.ie this week on what the Vatican needs to do to move forward on the subject of clerical sex abuse.

  • Week in quotes

    "Tá Éire fíorálainn! Land of green hills and dark beer. With capital Dublin glowing in the Irish night." Astronaut and flight engineer Commander Chris Hadfield impressed the nation with his 'as Gaeilge' message from aboard the International Space Station on Monday. He tweeted it with this photo of Dublin at night.
  • “There is nothing so blind as the blindness imposed by a dominant ideology, and a subservient State. A blindness that can subvert what our human intuition knows to be right and wrong.” – Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore in his own statement to the Dáil on the publication of the McAleese report into the Magdalene Laundries.
  • “I had no intention to kill my girlfriend.” – A court hears South African athlete Oscar Pistorius’ first public comments in the wake of the shooting dead of his girlfriend at his home in Pretoria. He stands accused of her premeditated murder.
  • “Labour, they’re nearly dropping like flies, [once] a week it’s nearly man overboard.” – Independent TD Clare Daly on the problems facing the junior coalition partner.
  • “Therefore, I, as Taoiseach, on behalf of the State, the government and our citizens deeply regret and apologise unreservedly to all those women for the hurt that was done to them, and for any stigma they suffered, as a result of the time they spent in a Magdalene Laundry.” – Taoiseach Enda Kenny issues a full apology to the women of the Magdalene Laundries.
  • “Playing with Mr. President was pretty cool. He’s just a wonderful person to be around. And we won.” – Golfer Tiger Woods on his round of golf with US President Barack Obama
  • “We are now left without a full picture of what happened. We would have liked Kieron Ducie and Ann Corcoran to take the opportunity of the court case to give an explanation but they did not.” – The mother of Katy French, the model who died six years ago, says it is hard

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