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# Quotes of the week

All time
'I really feel like there is a bit of hope there now': The week in quotes
'We are running out of places to dance': The week in quotes
'You run a tight ship here, Ursula, and quite right too': The week in quotes
'There is nothing I would like better right now than a pint': The week in quotes
'The idea of having a border north and south once again being closed is just not right': The week in quotes
'You can't furlough an elephant': The week in quotes
'I just want fighters of the next generation to dream big dreams': The week in quotes
'You think I could hop into one of them trucks and drive it away?': The week in quotes
'I do not believe in nationalising children': The week in quotes
'The government is not going to wash your hands for you': The week in quotes
'I am a perfect physical specimen and I'm extremely young': The week in quotes
'I don’t think you should fear the Irish': The week in quotes
'I’ve never felt so low in my life': The week in quotes
'If government support doesn’t come then the curtains will close': The week in quotes
'Pobalscoil Neasáin - if I pronounce that wrong and you lot are laughing at me, please stop': The week in quotes
'Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers': The week in quotes
'It's dangerous nonsense': The week in quotes
'I made a big mistake': The week in quotes
'He convinced others that peace could be a reality': The week in quotes
'I'm Irish': The week in quotes
'I believe this government will do massive damage to the idea of environmentalism': The week in quotes
‘I think there’s a moment of human frailty there from Eamon’: The week in quotes
'Not a sausage, not a jot, not a tiddle': The week in quotes
'Stay vigilant, keep our social distance, and take personal responsibility for our own health': The week in quotes
'He’s not a godlike creature, Solomon from above': The week in quotes
'I remember every situation where I was slagged by a player, a crowd, a manager': The week in quotes
'We agreed that we should go for a short drive to see if I could drive safely': The week in quotes
'I tested positively toward negative, right?': The week in quotes
'I'd love a pint': The week in quotes
'We’re not all in the same boat, but we are going through the same storm': The week in quotes
'No, it is not true, I’m saying unequivocally it never, never happened, and it didn’t, It never happened': The week in quotes
'Five one double-five one, wash your hands': The week in quotes
‘I haven’t felt this way in a long, long time': The week in quotes
'It's a pic I've been thinking about for 10 years': The week in quotes
'There is no room for complacency': The week in quotes
'This is a marathon without a finish line': The week in quotes
'You never know how much you love somebody until they’re gone': The week in quotes
'When people got to know him, they saw he was an incredible person': The week in quotes
‘We are in uncharted territory’: The week in quotes
‘We’ve seen students carrying a sleeping bag instead of books’: The week in quotes