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A complete shambles and Genie, you're free: The week in quotes
“Why does a Missouri town of 21,000 need a police force more heavily armed than the mid-1980s Royal Ulster Constabulary?”
IT WAS A week when the world was shocked by the death of Robin Williams.
Thousands of students received their Leaving Cert results, and people were angry about a toilet being knocked down. Very angry.
All that, and more, it’s the week in quotes:
My life has changed since coming here. If it wasn’t for you’s, I wouldn’t be here.
A testimonial from a young person who used the mental health services of the Jigsaw programme.
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Cork Teenager Joanne O’Riordan, who was born without arms and legs, secured a scholarship to do the course she wants at University College Cork.
The real worry that arises from the ruling is whether it means that any lesbian and gay person will not be able to talk about their lives or aspirations on the airwaves without the producer of the programme feeling that they have to bring someone in to challenge that.
Tiernan Brady of GLEN criticised the BAI’s decision to uphold a complaint that said that RTÉ Radio One’s Mooney (presenter Derek Mooney pictured) show breached guidelines by running a programme which supported same-sex marriage.
They can really stuff it now.
Dublin councillor Dermot Lacey wasn’t too happy with the decision to demolish a well-known public toilet.
Yeah, it’s odd. I remember a particular Christian Brother dropped the hand on me at one point. And it wasn’t very traumatic and it wasn’t at all sustained – it was just one of these things where something odd happened.
In an interview on a US radio show, actor Brendan Gleeson revealed that he was molested by a Christian Brother as a child.
It is indeed appropriate to remember and commemorate the thousands of Irish boys and men who were slaughtered during World War One, but it is wrong for An Post to commemorate a politician who promoted, recruited and shamed Irishmen into killing for Great Britain.
Labour TD Eamon Maloney said An Post were wrong to produce a stamp commemorating John Redmond M.P.
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, were heavily criticised for their heavy-handed tactics in dealing with protests following the kills of 18-year-old Michael Brown, an unarmed black man.
We don’t know what’s going to happen, we don’t want to imagine or think about the bad side because you hear about the death sentence, or life sentences or sentences of 20 years. A friend who was at the same protest got a life sentence.
Somaia Halawa feared for the future of her brother, Ibrahim. He was arrested last year for taking part in a Muslim Brotherhood protest in Egypt.
I want to ask you to do something to save this country from a complete shambles.
A member of the public pleads with the Taoiseach (pictured) to do something about the Garth Brooks concerts.
There was an outpouring of grief following the death of actor Robin Williams.
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