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# Said and done
Muppets and legal jargon: The week in quotes
“I’ve never come across a muppet in the Seanad, never once.”

IT WAS A week when the government committed a referendum to abolish the Seanad with the plebiscite being held later in the year.

Abroad, protests against the rule of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan raged in Turkey, showing no signs of abating and an Irish-born woman was made the US ambassador to the UN.

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

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