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Burying the blue dress and sending turkeys to Europe: The week in quotes
“We must now enter a new era of policing in this country.”
IT WAS A week when Alan Shatter stepped down as Minister for Justice.
A Senator compared a TD to a turkey, and Monica Lewinsky spoke out.
All that, and more it’s the week in quotes:
In a cynical age, when politicians are given little public credit for anything they do, I want to especially acknowledge the dedicated commitment of members of both parties, Ministers and non-Ministers, to the welfare of our country.
The words of the former Minister for Justice, Equality, and Defence Alan Shatter in his resignation letter to An Taoiseach.
We must now enter a new era of policing in this country.
His successor, Frances Fitzgerald, was quick to tackle the demanded reforms placed on the government’s plate in the wake of the Guerin report.
This man is taking a grave risk today.
The words of Independent TD Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan was he revealed fresh claims from a garda whisteblower who had come forward.
[Cabinet] stuck to the former Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Alan Shatter, like limpets when it was already obvious that he was careering around the place like an out of control Formula 1 driver on speed, isolated in his racing bubble and crashing recklessly through barrier after barrier, leaving many people crumpled on the road behind him.
Socialist TD Joe Higgins had an interesting take on Shatter’s resignation.
It’s time to burn the beret and bury the blue dress.
Monica Lewinsky broke her silence today about her illicit 1990s affair with president Bill Clinton.
All it does is annoy people and disrupt their holidays and I think people are sick of it and certainly I am.
Leo Varadkar didn’t have much time for a new threat of strike action at Aer Lingus.
A fun sort of four years.
How the Secretary General of the Department of Finance John Moran, who tendered his resignation this week, described working with the Department.
The slogan of Labour Senator Lorraine Higgins advising the public note to vote for Ming came under fire on social media.
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