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Glistening like wet otters: The week in quotes

“He always got the last word in every conversation.”

IT WAS A week in which the Olympics got under way with some success but also some disappointment for Team Ireland.

Elsewhere, Michael Phelps cemented his position as the greatest Olympic swimmer of all time by winning yet more medals at the Summer Games.

The violence in Syria continued and here at home Seán Quinn and his family continued to be in the news.

All that and more, it’s the week in quotes:

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