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# Week in quotes

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'He had no privacy, no dignity, and was subjected to constant torture': The week in quotes
'I spent that night with Ciaran, making the most of our final hours': The week in quotes
'The Taoiseach has no choice': The week in quotes
'The president here has masses of powers that a person in a skirt cannot carry out': The week in quotes
'Even the word shag is degrading': The week in quotes
'We got to get out of here. There's people running': The week in quotes
'That was the best ride I've ever had': The week in quotes
'I felt like I was terrorist, a criminal': The week in quotes
'Go f**k yourselves, you sad, power-hungry little men': The week in quotes
'Anyone who has ever taken a sexy selfie is at risk': The week in quotes
'So many times I have thought 'I wish I could plan your funeral'': The week in quotes
'The police might accuse us of attacking with our penis or buttock': The week in quotes
'They’ve all got really good bums, all of them': The week in quotes
'Women are there for cleaning, cooking, washing and sex': The week in quotes
'Her death brings devastation': The week in quotes
'I intentionally used the French pronunciation wifee': The week in quotes
'I see people stacking up their trolleys with drink and wine': The week in quotes
'I looked up to you more than you can imagine, the King of Tomfoolery': The week in quotes
'We were just playing around in the waves... and then a shark bit my arm off': The week in quotes
'They went to have a fantastic day and lost a limb': The week in quotes
'The Irish have a mutant lawn weed as their national symbol': The week in quotes
'I will continue to do my job as mandated - why wouldn't I?': The week in quotes
'I couldn't go out without getting spiders in my beard': The week in quotes
'This way if you are gay': The week in quotes
'I guess it’s hard to accept yourself when your country doesn’t': The week in quotes
'This is our life sentence, for us there is no parole': The week in quotes
'I wanted to do some damage to him, but she begged me not to': The week in quotes
'I almost couldn’t look at it to see my son running defencelessly, being shot': The week in quotes
'Our little boy always wanted to be a superhero, and he became one in death': The week in quotes
'To see him sitting there with that gun… I just couldn’t believe that was my son': The week in quotes
'When being raped, she should just be silent and allow the rape': The week in quotes
'These llamas are the Romeo and Juliet of our generation': The week in quotes
'You have a problem because you guys used to be slaves': The week in quotes
'Just before the bride walked down the aisle, I heard someone screaming': The week in quotes
'Why go to the cinema to watch other people have sex? It's perverted': The week in quotes
'God, I thought it had only gone as far as the Free State!': The week in quotes
'Almost any cartoon can elicit a reaction – even a blank square': The week in quotes
"Slings and arrows are at the ready, pointed at us": The week in quotes
'How was this woman told her baby was dead, but there's a heartbeat?': The week in quotes
'No person is perfect, no government is perfect, nor am I': The week in quotes