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'I cannot save my daughter, and it destroys me': The week in quotes
Here’s what was said and who said what this week.
I cannot save my daughter, and it destroys me. The one kindness we can do for this little girl, who will never know us, is to shield her from pain. If we choose to do that, we must leave our families and friends, the hospital staff we know, everyone and everything that saved us from shattering entirely. We must travel to a foreign country and deal with the horrible banality of the logistics on top of the emotional trauma of her death. Costs. Paperwork. Hotel reservations and passport control. All because our country refuses to allow us to shield our daughter from pain.
An Irish couple who are expecting a baby, and who received a diagnosis of fatal foetal abnormality, wrote about their ordeal for this website.
I am completely innocent of all such charges and I will also vigorously defend my good name and character that I have spent my lifetime building through voluntary service for numerous sporting bodies.
President of the Olympic Council of Ireland Pat Hickey on the criminal organisation, ticket touting, ambush marketing, larceny, money laundering, and tax evasion charges he faces in Brazil.
I will bring all hell down on top of them if they don’t deliver this.
Minister John Halligan speaking to the Sunday Independent on pressuring the government into building a second catheterisation lab at Waterford General Hospital.
I expect John Halligan to do his job.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny wasn’t too impressed.
I don’t think I’ll watch an Olympic Games again.
Irish boxer Michael Conlan spoke to The Anton Savage Show on Today FM about THAT fight.
We need more XX chromosomes around Newstalk, so obviously that’s the only reason I’m here.
Newstalk’s second day of its new lineup saw a bit of an awkward moment between Shane Coleman and new Newstalk Breakfast co-host Colette Fitzpatrick.
After the accident I couldn’t move, I had no movement whatsoever of anything at all so… It’s so hard. I was on a catheter, I couldn’t use my bowels or anything, all that was gone. You had to be showered, you had to get someone to brush your teeth, you had to get someone to shave you, I couldn’t do anything like that.
Shane Gannon on an injury he suffered on a construction site in 2013.
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