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'We're gonna win bigly': The week in quotes

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

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It’s still hard to talk about. It’s still skating on thin ice because I never want to go back there again and I guard against it. It was that feeling of not being able to raise a hand to get to the phone. That feeling of lying there doing nothing because you couldn’t think of any way of getting out of it.

Veteran RTÉ journalist Olivia O’Leary opened up about her battle with depression when she was a young reporter in the 1970s, describing how holding her own with “the boys” took its toll.
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We lose with our military, we can’t beat Isis. We lose with trade, we lose with borders, we lose with everything. We’re gonna stop losing, we’re gonna start winning again and we’re gonna win bigly, believe me.

Donald Trump’s use of the word “bigly” was scrutinised.

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The fellow who made the real cock-up is given promotion to the European Commission, it’s fuckin’… I’m sorry, I’ve been off for a few weeks.

Vincent Browne dropped the f-bomb on live television.

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The point is that the doping control officer shouldn’t approach the player until all that is over. And then let him enjoy his post match dealing with defeat or victory or those special times when you can have a little time with players, where you can soak in that atmosphere. Those precious couple of moments after a game. Once that is over, then approach the player. Then go through the protocols. But not when a player walks down the tunnel after a game and the emotions haven’t probably even left him.

Dublin manager Jim Gavin clarified his post-league final comments surrounding the drug testing of players and reiterated his problem is with the timing of the tests.

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God above is in charge of the weather and that we here can’t do anything about it.

Danny Healy-Rae’s comments on climate change raised some eyebrows.

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I want to work, I want to keep doing what I want to do. I don’t want money. I don’t want fame. I don’t want adoration. I just want to be left alone.

Australian inventor Craig Wright has admitted to being the creator of Bitcoin after years of speculation about who was behind the cryptocurrency.

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My sister is laughing all the way to the bank. We don’t speak at all. We will never speak again.

Anonymous readers revealed their experiences of dealing with wills.

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I’ve never seen myself as white. That’s only skin deep. I’m a human being. We’re all human beings, whatever our skin colour, whatever our gender, whatever our ability or disability. The fact is we’re all human beings.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams went on the defensive after using the n-word in a tweet.

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How this document took 70 days to write is incredible and astonishing. That’s 10 days per page!

Former Labour minister Alan Kelly lashed out with Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 9:41 PM

    Wow, imagine going to sleep now and waking up in March!

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 9:45 PM

    @Steve: Sounds fine to me. #2020IsAPileOfShite

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 9:58 PM

    @Greg Ward: get to spend more time at home with the family. #seemsoktome

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 10:35 PM

    @Steve: 2023 be grand.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 11:03 PM

    @thomas patrick: it’s nice you’re not having to avoid your family because they’re vulnerable and you’re working outside the home.

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    Oct 24th 2020, 2:11 AM

    @Steve: I could think of worse things. Ohhhh what I’d give to be a Hedgehog (and before anyone says it, I know I’m a bit of a p®ick already ;¬)

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    Oct 24th 2020, 7:16 AM

    @Steve: we’d be in Lockdown 5 “Rocky Returns”

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 9:51 PM

    The picture is of a ring-tailed lemur, and they don’t hibernate.. Only dwarf lemurs do.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 10:08 PM

    @Seos: Sounds like you know your Lemurs.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 11:17 PM

    @Seos: it’s 2020, dwarf lemurs shouldn’t have to hibernate. Thinking of starting a new social justice campaign.

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    Oct 24th 2020, 2:12 AM

    @Lad: I think they are just plain lazy

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 10:16 PM

    Out of the 105 species of lemurs, only the fat – tailed dwarf lemur, hibernate. What is pictured is a ring tailed lemur, which doesn’t hibernate.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 10:22 PM

    @Paul Crudge: ……….if thats all you have t9 complain about….you have an easy life.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 10:23 PM

    @Paul Crudge: Sounds like you know your lemurs.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 11:13 PM

    @Biscuits Patinkin: I’m a qualified zookeeper.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 11:14 PM

    @The Kev in Kevlar: I’m not complaining, just pointing out facts.

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    Oct 24th 2020, 2:14 AM

    @The Kev in Kevlar: Kev, you seem to complain a lot about people complaining. Cheer up, 2020 will be over soon.

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 9:35 PM

    11/12

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    Oct 23rd 2020, 9:42 PM

    7/10. Had to guess a few.

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    Oct 24th 2020, 7:33 AM

    @Celtic Spirit: there was 12 questions

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    Oct 24th 2020, 12:34 AM

    I would have gotten away with it, if it wasnt for those pesky lemurs…….

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    Oct 24th 2020, 12:01 AM

    Wake me up in 3 months

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    Oct 24th 2020, 11:33 AM

    Government ministers are missing from this quiz.

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    Oct 24th 2020, 8:17 AM

    Hibernation is weird like I love an oul sleep but I like to get up at some stage ea h day

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