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'The only person that would have done this is some sort of an anti-Christ': The week in quotes

“I turned this way, house was on a blazer. I ran up, and I caught the baby.”

IT WAS A week of morons, anti-Christs, and catching babies.

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

A Twitter row over a vague graph climaxed with a FG TD Alan Farrell calling a voter a “moron”.

Coalition Talks Begin Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland Mark Stedman / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

It was an outrageous act. The only person that would have committed this crime is some sort of an anti-Christ.

Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae on the Carrauntoohil cross being cut down.

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We have knickers shops and an amusement arcade. What kind of a street is this for a capital city of a European country in the 21st century?

Senator David Norris’s views on O’Connell Street.

Thought someone’s phone was being nicked… Ran up to the corner and had a look up there — nothing. I turned this way, house was on a blazer. I ran up, and I caught the baby.

Mark Furlong on rescuing catching a baby thrown from a burning building in Dublin..

File Photo Frances Fitzgerald Minister for Justice & Equality, has today announced that the Government has decided to appoint Ms Noirin OSullivan as Garda Commissioner. Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland Sam Boal / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

It’s very important that we don’t stereotype each other by gender or anything else. It’s down to human interaction and human beings dealing with each other.

Newly appointed garda commissioner Noirin O’Sullivan on whether the fact that she’s a woman would have any bearing on how she does her job.

Turkey Erdogan AP / Press Association Images AP / Press Association Images / Press Association Images

You cannot tell them to go out and dig the soil. This is against their delicate nature.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared that women are not equal to men.
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The point is to break these bastards – that’s the point. And what’s going to break them is equality. That’s what’s going to break them – equality.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams said “mea culpa” over using the word “bastard” when talking about unionists.

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Today I am taking an action fully within my legal authority — the same kind of action taken by Democrat and Republican presidents before me — to spare the lives of two turkeys, Mac and Cheese, from a terrible and delicious fate.

Barack Obama spared the lives of two turkeys.

Catch my baby.

That was the instruction from a woman who was about to give birth at the roadside after crashing into a roundabout

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