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Week in quotes
'A steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action': The week in quotes
Here’s what was said and who said what this week.
Many of the negative experiences she went through could have been avoided if (she) had not been prohibited from terminating her pregnancy in the familiar environment of her own country and under the care of health professionals whom she knew and trusted.
UN exports found that Ireland’s abortion laws resulted in the ‘cruel and degrading’ treatment of a woman.
Such an action would be wholly disproportionate and would remove the last vestiges of constitutional protection for the life of the unborn child.
The view of Independent TD Mattie McGrath on repealing the Eighth Amendment. He was one of 76 (out of 158) who was responded to a survey by TheJournal.ie when asked for his view on it.
If the judiciary do not take these matters seriously then why in God’s name would motorists?
Noel O’Callaghan, vice-chairperson of the Irish Road Victims Association, hit out at a judge’s decision not to ban a man from driving who was caught four times over the legal alcohol limit and who drove his car into a ditch.
I couldn’t just “get on with it”. I was ill. Very ill. He just didn’t want to hear. Suicide became a real option for me. I often felt it was the only option. I was angry, confused and hurt that I had given my trust to this doctor and he, like so many before him, had trivialised my struggle.
Sean O Briain wrote about living with ‘one of the last major diseases we know nothing about, ME/CFS.
If I made inappropriate comments in the Opera House in Cork, I obviously apologise. I will attempt for the rest of my time here not to make such inappropriate comments.
Ireland manager Martin O’Neill apologised for his “queers” comment.
That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life.
The father of a Stanford University student convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman came under fire for dismissing the crime.
I walked alone and met no one.
A seven-year-old boy who survived for nearly a week after being abandoned by his parents in a forest spoke about the experience.
Nothing ever changes, but you learn to live with it and get on with it.
The words of Ann McCabe, wife of detective garda Jerry McCabe who was murdered by the IRA 20 years ago this week.
There’s nowhere to have any form of a normal life. The longer that goes on the more potential it has to harm children.
Mike Allen, the director of advocacy for Focus Ireland, spoke about the problems experienced by children who are homeless.
You appreciate the history of the matters. There have been a number of occasions that your client was in court and he was reminded that a consent order was put in place. In short a merry dance was being led.
Judge Michael Coghlan said former politician Ivor Callaely led a “merry dance” over seven court appearances to resolve the debt.
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