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Legitimate rape and nonsense: The week in quotes

“Sat by some bins, had a cry and rang my mammy.”

IT WAS A week in which the subject of rape was much discussed after some ill-informed remarks from a US senate hopeful and controversial comments from the MP George Galloway.

Taxi drivers at Dublin Airport were causing chaos for passengers in a dispute over a reduction in parking spaces and the mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison.

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