Advertisement

We need your help now

Support from readers like you keeps The Journal open.

You are visiting us because we have something you value. Independent, unbiased news that tells the truth. Advertising revenue goes some way to support our mission, but this year it has not been enough.

If you've seen value in our reporting, please contribute what you can, so we can continue to produce accurate and meaningful journalism. For everyone who needs it.

Said and done

Not a panacea and merciless operation: The week in quotes

“Someone just came in and handed him across the counter to us. It was a really cross swan as well, we had to put him in a cell for a while to calm down.”

IT WAS A week in which North Korea heightened its anti-US rhetoric amid ongoing tensions between the secretive state and the West.

Here at home Ruairí Quinn got a rough old time at the teachers’ conferences and the HSE report into the death of Savita Halappanavar left the bereaved husband, Praveen, with more questions.

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

Not a panacea and merciless operation: The week in quotes
1 / 10
  • Week in quotes

  • Week in quotes

  • Week in quotes

  • Week in quotes

  • Week in quotes

  • Week in quotes

  • Week in quotes

  • Week in quotes

  • Week in quotes

  • Week in Quotes

Pics: Press Association/Photocall Ireland

Read previous weeks in quotes >