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'The sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets': The week in quotes
Here’s what was said and who said what this week.
I worried what will happen if they manage to open the car doors.
Joan Burton gave evidence at the trial of a 17-year-old boy charged in connection with the Jobstown water charges protest in November 2014.
At the time I didn’t think too much about it, it was later I thought about it. It was a job. You got a job to do and you did it, same as you do now and that is it. It is easy to kill someone. If you were going, you were to bring as many as possible with you. You see, you always get the idea, he’s going to get killed and I’m not. That’s what I know, I dunno if other people felt the way. That everybody has got to get killed but not me, same as you. But when you look back at it then that’s a very stupid idea because you’re likely to make mistakes.
Tadhg Quinn, one of the surviving members of the UN’s 1961 A Company, speaking after the Irish premiere of The Siege of Jadotville, a film based on the experience of Irish peacekeepers.
I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency, the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.
These men will be scarred by this. They will need all the support they can get at this time.
Michael Dixon, spokesperson for the National Ambulance Service Representative Association (NASRA) on the paramedics who tried in vain to save a pensioner from a burning ambulance.
They’re sober, cold, and determined to make sure anyone in their way is eliminated. It is only from within that these people will be persuaded to lay down their arms. They’re not afraid of the gardaí.
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin spoke of his distaste at the ongoing gangland feud being seen in Dublin.
The sounds of bombs will be heard in the streets.
A line from the handwritten diary of Ahmad Khan Rahami, who was detained after explosives last weekend in New York City and New Jersey, including a bomb that injured 31 people in Manhattan.
Gardaí are the only agency available at that time. Public order laws don’t give them the right to detain [these people]. They are damned if they do, damned if they don’t. If they let that person back onto the streets, and they cause violent injury to someone or fall into the river – it’ll be the gardaí’s fault.
Gsoc chair Ellen Ring told an Oireachtas committee of the issues facing gardaí.
It was never my intention to offend anybody and I think, what, 25 people were offended enough to pick up the phone and call RTÉ. I sort of knew at the time that I’d probably just gone a little bit too far – but these things happen.
Ray D’Arcy on *that* interview with Pamela Anderson.
This has been a lot of fun, Mrs Clinton. We should stay in touch. What’s the best way to reach you? Email?
Zach Galifianakis concluding his interview with Hilary Clinton on Between Two Ferns.
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