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Hot whiskey and cover your ass: The week in quotes

“The Irish government is not going to default.”

IT WAS THE week in which the country mourned the brutal killing of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe in Co Louth as the father-of-two was given a State funeral.

The killing prompted a landmark apology from Gerry Adam while elsewhere the beef burger/horse meat controversy rumbled on and the promissory notes were never far from politicians’ thoughts.

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

Hot whiskey and cover your ass: The week in quotes
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