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Paddy whackery, colleens on parade, and dead geckos: It's the week in quotes
“They are advertising, slickly produced pseudo snuff movies and we want no part in them should they come up.”
It was a week that saw the murder of twins in Cork, lots of talk of Budget 2015, and the possibility of a new political party.
All that, and more, it’s the week in quote:
Staying put
I am sorry I had to disappoint the Senator [David Norris] in terms of seeing me today because only a few weeks ago he demanded my expulsion from this country.- Israeli ambassador Boaz Modai told an Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade that he’s staying put for another year.
RTÉ News RTÉ News
Careful now
We can’t risk the success by playing fast and loose and by making political decisions.
- Minister for Finance Michael Noonan stressed that the Government wants to be careful with next year’s Budget.
AP Photo / Yves Logghe AP Photo / Yves Logghe / Yves Logghe
Tragedy in Cork
It’s the most unnatural thing in the world to see a child dead, and to see your own child dead in unimaginable.
- Father Tom Naughton on the deaths of twin boys and their brother in Cork.
Paul Byrne / TV3 News Paul Byrne / TV3 News / TV3 News
Taking a stand
They are advertising, slickly produced pseudo snuff movies and we want no part in them should they come up.
- The website Live Leak on its unprecedented decision to remove all video uploads of the Steven Sotloff beheading.
This week, we mourn, but we will emerge from this ordeal. Our village is strong. We will not allow our enemies to hold us hostage with the sole weapons they possess: fear.
- A spokesperson for Sotloff’s family spoke of their resolve.
The reports we have received reveal acts of inhumanity on an unimaginable scale.
- Flavia Pansieri, the UN’s Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned of the scale of Islamic State’s crimes.
Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. VICE News VICE News
A Rose for the 21st Century
Paddy whackery, colleens on parade, Stepford Wives tricked out as national stereotypes, flagrant misogyny or masquerading as Irish culture.- Anthony O’Gara, chairman of the Rose of Tralee, on what the event is not all about.
Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh Roseoftralee_ Roseoftralee_
A fresh start
Whatever your views, if the opportunity to change Irish politics is there, I think it should be grasped now.
- Shane Ross called on independent politicians to ‘change Irish politics radically’.
Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland
Time to say sorry
Philomena, this state owes you and apology and a thank you.- Labour TD Anne Ferris said Philomena Lee’s (pictured) work in highlighting the struggles of natural parents to be reunited with their children after adoption should be recognised.
Sexy space geckos
Unfortunately all the geckos died.- The Russian Space Agency was disappointed when five geckos, sent into orbit to test the effect of weightlessness on the small lizards’ sex lives, all died.
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