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'Get that baby out of here': The week in quotes

Here’s what was said and who said what this week.

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To hear the Monsignor (Hugh Connelly) say a few days ago that there is a healthy and wholesome atmosphere in the seminary was extremely disappointing and far-removed from the experience of seminarians. Neither I, nor I suspect the majority of seminarians, would describe the atmosphere in the seminary this past year as anything other than as anything other than poisonous.

A trainee priest at St Patrick’s College in Maynooth has described life at the seminary.

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It’s probably against the moral code, it’s probably against the religious code, but are we seriously saying that we are saying to consenting adults… on that basis because someone is paying… that this is a criminal offence. Why?

Junior minister John Halligan spoke out about his support for the legalisation of prostitution.

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I want the few who are left to know they have justice.

Bethany Home survivor Derek Leinster said he is bringing a case to the European Court of Human Rights over his treatment while in the mother and baby home.

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To wear my green jersey at the Olympics will be surreal moment.

Diver Oliver Dingley on flying out to Rio.

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The very first day we went along we were surrounded by these Church of Ireland mothers and grannies and they were all asking questions, ‘Where do you go to Church?, How come we haven’t seen you here before? When are you going to sign up for Sunday school?’. I completely lied, I said all sorts of terrible things like religion is really important to me. It’s terrible – these lovely people and I was forced to lie.

Eoin O’Brien on how he felt forced to lie – and begin going to church – after baptising his children in the hope they would get into a religious school.

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As brutal and unfair and horrible as Jacques’ death was, we have to look deep into our hearts to find the light.

Rouen Archbishop Dominique Lebrun speaking at the funeral of Father Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old priest who was murdered by two jihadists last week.

Indonesia Asylum Seekers Sri Lankan asylum seekers who were caught in Indonesian waters while trying to sail to Australia. PA Wire PA Wire

People here don’t have a real life. We are just surviving. We are dead souls in living bodies. We are just husks. We don’t have any hope or motivation.

One woman on the conditions endured by asylum seekers and refugees on the Pacific island of Nauru.

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Don’t worry about that baby. I love babies. I hear that baby crying, I like it. What a baby… Actually, I was only kidding, you can get the baby out of here.. That’s all right. Don’t worry. I, I think she really believed me that I love having a baby crying while I’m speaking. That’s OK. People don’t understand. That’s OK.

Donald Trump’s views on babies.

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    Mute Teene Nyantoon
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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:10 PM

    At least repeal the eight first before poor woman are force in to financial sexual exploitation, There are some really disgusting attitudes to women out there, It’s like when trump got nominated and all the racists became inspired.
    I remember sleeping rough when I was younger here, I went into a spar for a hot beverage, An old man approached me and said he could give me, shelter, food, money if I just went with him I said no, even thought I was 16 at that stage I just wanted to die thanks to my family, But I knew I didn’t want to be distroyed. I have only started to think about this recently, How many creeps know that they can acquire some willing victims with the right amount of money. who always go for younger girls not because their actually pedo, but have more like to prowl undetected because women now wore, work etc Yes I know abuse in more likely to happen in homes, but what about the type of the abuse that never comes oout because these people know how to cover their tracks?, From baby homes to state sanctioned moral corruption, F me.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:16 PM

    Teens, there is so much truth and reality in your comment. Sexual exploitation is such a extensive and pervasive evil.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:28 PM

    apparently sex is a biological need don’t you know. We should have in the declaration of human rights…

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    Mute Chlorines72
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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:54 PM

    So you want to abort babies because of some lecherous old man you met in Spar all those years ago!?

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    Mute Teene Nyantoon
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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:58 PM

    no, if we are to put women at risk of prostitution, which is already legal so we already do, at least give abused pregnant women and young girls a right to termination. Not everyone can abortion in it’s current form, maybe we should start crowding it and stop f*cking women and young girls because of a jewish myth.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 1:18 PM

    My parents never talked to me about sex, It never came up in school that we live in a society that adheres to the vice of men. way to go CC. The popes knowledge knows no bounds. he has a book. the book has answers…believe me.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 1:23 PM

    What if those abused pregnant women and young girls decided to keep their children and raise them up themselves?

    Then after a few years they decides that the child’s presence in their lives is too much to cope with .

    The child resembles the biological father and reminds her of the terrible abuse she endured all those years ago.. Should that mother not have the right to kill that child?

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    Aug 7th 2016, 1:31 PM

    Come again please? oh so abortion is murder right? so is the morning after pill right?, And tell us whats wrong with contraceptives? Since your supporting your pedo cult.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 1:34 PM

    Can’t answer the question, thought so. Go back to Spar.

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    Mute Teene Nyantoon
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    Aug 7th 2016, 2:07 PM

    Abortion is not murder and your church is cult….no different then other christian sect.

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    Mute Joey_Westland
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    Aug 7th 2016, 2:16 PM

    Abortion, abortion, abortion.
    You sound pretty brainwashed yourself.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 2:52 PM

    lol I was thanks to missionaries, I’m not anymore thanks to secular thinking, Don’t like abortions Joey? Of course you don’t you wombless cultist.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 5:25 PM

    Dear God, what bull…

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    Mute Paddy Lynn
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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:18 PM

    The usual pig-ignorant rhetoric and chaotic ad lib balderdash from bumbling bugler, Trump.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:07 PM

    Great to see a natural human response from a politician for once.
    If that was Hilary she’d probably take the baby, pretend to breastfeed it then go on an hour long rant about women’s rights, feminism, marching babies to freedom and generally boring the brains off the world in general.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:09 PM

    The usual nonsense devout Democrats love.

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    Aug 7th 2016, 12:35 PM

    devout people are the worst

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    Mute Andy Cahalan
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    Aug 7th 2016, 4:55 PM

    Hillary would sacrifice the child to Moloch, Minerva, whatever. 3 references in her emails to the occultism of The Cremation of Care! Which is a ritual child sacrifice!

    http://politiforum.com/t/hillary-clinton-connected-to-bohemian-grove-minerva-god-moloch-owls/436

    Only seeing the “lollipop experience” thing from DNC emails now. Let your imaginations run wild.

    I don’t even buy most of that stuff but can’t figure out why they’d be talking about it at all!

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    Aug 7th 2016, 5:20 PM

    Ah, poor Joey. Prepared to stay in the bunker with the wannabe Führer and pop a cyanide pill before the howling hordes of sanity take you alive,

    But there is something you could do right now to show Trumpler how much you love him: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10210328363424935&set=a.1191034335491.2028973.1217362611&type=3

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    Aug 7th 2016, 5:27 PM

    Jester devout people are not bad, it is the ones who act devout you have to watch out for?

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    Aug 21st 2016, 6:02 PM

    Consulting adults who are priests or nuns i have no problem with, they know what they are doing.
    Its the ones who touch the Children and abuse as long as the want and tell them the Parents will die if they tell anyone. They are the demons.

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