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# Said and done

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# Said and done
Still a Republican and a seismic shift: The week in quotes
“I want those lies – I want that blackguarding, lies, corrected here today. That was lies we were told… It’s been a farce from start to finish.”
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Jul 1st 2012, 7:00 PM
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So much partying and do as the Romans do: The week in quotes
“What we have found, in one word, is a disgrace.”
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Jun 24th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Professionalism and George Bush's head: The week in quotes
“The last head on the left is George Bush. George Bush’s head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. It’s not a choice, it’s not a political statement. We just had to use whatever head we had around.”
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Jun 17th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Soviet machine guns and healthy scepticism: The week in quotes
“I came here to see Jedward carry the Olympic torch. It was awesome because, like, they’re Jedward. I didn’t know it would be a big thing with a fire on top, I thought it was a torch you would shine stuff on.”
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Jun 10th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Inconceivable and short lived independence: The week in quotes
“It was Fianna Fáil wot won it.”
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Jun 3rd 2012, 7:00 PM
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Lunatics and a reunited Ireland: The week in quotes
“I honestly think it is damaging the national psyche.”
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May 27th 2012, 7:00 PM
# Said and done
Noah's Ark and whole genitalia: The week in quotes
“You can’t even call it a fig leaf – a fig leaf covers the whole genatalia, this only covers the tip.”
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May 20th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Arousal and muzzled: The week in quotes
“It is important for me personally to go ahead and affirm that same-sex couples should be able to get married.”
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May 13th 2012, 7:00 PM
# Said and done
Good innings and Jedi Knights: The week in quotes
“They were absolutely stoned out of their minds.”
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May 6th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Smirking, measles and morons: The week in quotes
“As far as I’m concerned, he’s a moron.”
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Apr 29th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Fornication and feeling great: The week in quotes
“Hurrah for fornication”.
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Apr 22nd 2012, 7:00 PM
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Very conscious and the McCarthy era: The week in quotes
“This is a slippery slope we should not slide down nor encourage. It has echoes of the discredited McCarthy era of the 1950s in US politics.”
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Apr 15th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Editorial failures and downsides to being pretty: The week in quotes
“We are not the people to turn to if you can’t find your false teeth, if your sat nav is broken and you need directions … if you are looking for a dog-minder while you are on holiday.”
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Apr 8th 2012, 7:00 PM
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By the grace of God and blood sport: The week in quotes
“By the grace of God, we have won the most sensational victory in British political history.”
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Apr 1st 2012, 7:00 PM
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Awesome people and political corruption: The week in quotes
“I was honest with the Tribunal and I gave it truthful evidence and I reject completely any suggestion that I did otherwise.”
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Mar 25th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Paddy doesn't know and lubricant of credit: The week in quotes
“Take off like a rocket”
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Mar 18th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Fewer foreigners and European trains: The week in quotes
“Anyone out there hurting, looking at 50 TDs and Senators celebrating a year in government… it would have been a disaster.”
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Mar 11th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Referenda and Raisa: The week in quotes
“The first ten years of this 15 year ordeal were absolutely hell”
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Mar 4th 2012, 7:00 PM
# Said and done
Leftist flamboyance and corrosive cynicism: The week in quotes
“Autism is a theory. It is not a fact”
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Feb 26th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Pope and pictures: The week in quotes
“I got to give them kudos, cause they really stepped up and did the full monty thing and got naked.”
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Feb 19th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Nuts and takeaway: The week in quotes
“We’ll pay our dues in full and on time”…
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Feb 12th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Buddy-buddy and 'so help me God': The week in quotes
“We must reject the notion of normative citizens being reduced to the status of disaggregated rational utility maximisers in our theories and policies.”
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Feb 5th 2012, 7:00 PM
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Borrowing and bombs: The week in quotes
They said what? TheJournal.ie looks back at the week in words.
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Jan 29th 2012, 7:00 PM
# Said and done
Wolves and Wahlberg: The week in quotes
They said what? TheJournal.ie looks back at the week in words.
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Jan 22nd 2012, 7:00 PM
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