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'No person is perfect, no government is perfect, nor am I': The week in quotes
“To be honest, it feels a little bit like coming home.”
IT WAS A week when thousands took to the streets over water charges, Enda Kenny faced a vote of confidence, and Ray D’Arcy departed for RTÉ.
All that, and more, it’s the week in quotes.
No person is perfect, no government is perfect, nor am I.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny during a motion of confidence.
To be honest, it feels a little bit like coming home.
Veteran broadcaster Ray D’Arcy on his shock move from Today FM to RTÉ.
This man is not a cartoon character, he ain’t Del Boy, he ain’t Arthur Daly, he’s a pound shop Enoch Powell, and we got to watch him.
Russell Brand on UKIP leader Nigel Farage.
Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams after British Prime Minister Cameron and Taoiseach Enda Kenny left political talks saying that no deal is possible right now on the issues of flags, parades and the past.
When I wasn’t killing someone I got uptight. I would pace up and down at home. Killing calmed me down.
Sailson Jose das Gracas, a Brazillian man accused of murdering more than 40 people.
We want them to know that they are doing a good job in a very challenging profession. Under no circumstances, do we want mob rule. We abhor violence in every shape or form.
The family of Mary Garvin, one of Bungalow 3 Áras Attractra residents, on carers ‘working quietly, caringly and professionally’ at the centre.
The Elders of Sinn Féin are going to have to make ‘the supreme sacrifice’ and step down shortly in the same way the last Pope did.
Sinead O’Connor after joining Sinn Féin.
I could use the C word about Nama.
Mattie McGarth let it be known that he isn’t a fan of the bad bank.
The rest of the world can sleep at night because a group of men and women are willing to stand and fight. For tireless acts of courage and mercy, for buying the world time to boost its defenses, for risking, for persisting, for sacrificing and saving, the Ebola fighters are TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year.
Ebola fighters were named TIME’s 2014 Person of the Year.
You know, it really bothers me that people are out protesting about €3 a week in water charges. We have much bigger problems in our society.
Minister Leo Varadkar on last week’s anti-water charges march.
They are like the suspect community of the Irish in London in the early 90s where the threat was terrorism. Here it is illegal status and they are scared.
An Irish service provider in Boston who did not wish to be named said that the undocumented Irish have ongoing fears about being deported.
I don’t really know what Fergus O’Dowd is talking about, to be frank. I haven’t a clue. I mean ‘dark forces’? That goes to a space where I’m not really sure where he’s going to be honest.
Minister Alan Kelly after former Minister O’Dowd, one the people involved in setting up Irish Water, said he felt that there were people with “agendas” working to privatise the utility company.
I’m off.
Marie Farrell out of the High Court while being cross-examined during Ian Bailey’s civil case against the State and An Garda Síochána.
I had forgotten what it is like to be free. I will never forget it again.
Serge Lazarevic after he arrived home in France after three years at the hands of Islamist militants.
On Camden Street, Harcourt Street, South Great George’s Street, Smock Alley and Temple Bar, there were no bells from the church, no urban foxes and no first snowflakes, just the sound of music in the distance and rats skittering across the sodden blankets and beds of needles
Enda Kenny after he walked the streets of Dublin to see the city’s homelessness issue first hand.
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