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Silly season and big new bazooka: The week in quotes

“I tried my best and I didn’t succeed.”

IT WAS A week in which the Health Minister James Reilly was under pressure but appeared to earn a reprieve of sorts with his reversal of some cuts to the HSE budget.

In the US, Democrats gathered to nominate Barack Obama for the presidency once more while back here a set of reports from the National Board for Safeguarding of Children in the Catholic Church were damning of some dioceses and religious orders and their handling of child abuse allegations.

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

Silly season and big new bazooka: The week in quotes
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