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A slur on the women and none of us is perfect: The week in quotes
“Today I am proud to say to the Parliament that I am – as the saying goes – truly, madly, deeply, European.”
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Jul 7th 2013, 7:00 PM

IT WAS A week dominated by the abortion legislation as the Dáil held its first vote on the landmark Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill.

Elsewhere, a coup in Egypt led to the fall of the country’s first democratically elected president just a year after he came to power while Brian O’Driscoll’s exclusion from the Lions team had plenty of you talking.

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

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