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Funerals without corpses and rolling around in sugar: The week in quotes
“I’m not sure if I’m able to turn the poison chalice into sweet wine.”
IT WAS A week when the Government carried out a major Cabinet reshuffle.
GarthGate rumbled on, and George Clooney lambasted the Dail Mail.
All that, and more, it’s the week in quotes:
This, to me, is like a funeral without a corpse. There’s a sadness throughout the nation.
Dublin Lord Mayor Christy Burke was hit particular hard by Garth Brooks’ withdrawal from his five Croke Park gigs.
Mr Brooks has already confirmed he’s not coming. He’s not coming. There will be no concerts at all now. None.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny was fairly certain of what of the outcome of the saga will be.
If the prime minister himself wants to talk to me I will crawl, swim, fly over to him. I will drop on my knees just to let those 400,000 people see me.
Garth’s heart was, as you would expect, achy and breakin’ over the whole debacle.
I felt like a doughnut fresh out of the fryer, rolling around in the sugar.
Golfer Michelle Wie’s thoughts on being a Major winner. You want a doughtnut now, right?
I’m not sure if I’m able to turn the poison chalice into sweet wine
Newly appointed Minister for Health Leo Varadkar seemed very aware of the mammoth task he now faces.
I think it was the worst day of my life… I will be remembered as the coach to lose 7-1, but I knew that risk when I took the job and life goes on so that is what I am going to do.
Brazilian coach Luiz Felipe Scolari had a positive take on his team’s massive Word Cup loss to Germany.
This lie involves larger issues. The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately danger.
If you’re deemed too old to serve at Cabinet at this juncture, it causes you to look at things thorough a different prism.
Former Minister Pat Rabbitte was uncertain about his future in politics after he was dropped from Cabinet.
At the end of the day the individual might turn back and feel guilty and may become a good person. God only know what happens to each individual person.
Dr Muhammad Taufiq al-Sattar said he doesn’t hate the people who killed his family in an arson attack in the United Kingdom last year.
Since November, we’ve seen a 100% rise in the figures. People are talking about a tsunami coming in a year, or two years. It’s here, the tsunami has already arrived.
Anthony Flynn of Inner City Helping Homeless said that the number of people sleeping rough in Dublin had reached another all-time high.
