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Creepy feeling and red lines: The week in quotes

“It’s a rather creepy feeling that Ireland’s neutrality would be ignored. But then, that’s Hitler for you.”

IT WAS A week in which the family of Jill Meagher had to come to terms with her terrible death in Melbourne, Australia.

Back here in Ireland Environment Minister Phil Hogan came in for criticism over a constituency matter while the Health Minister James Reilly was embroiled in yet more controversy as his junior minister Róisín Shortall resigned.

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

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