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"Slings and arrows are at the ready, pointed at us": The week in quotes

“The State pension is absolutely secure.”

IT WAS A week of a new year, new pastures (for one iconic footballer) and a new political party.

That, and more, it’s the week in quotes.

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It will of course be hard. Slings and arrows are at the ready, pointed at us. We will proceed and will not be deflected from our goals.

Lucinda Creighton knows starting a new political party won’t be easy.

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I don’t use bad language. I apologise if offence was taken.

Charlie Flanagan on whether he used a four-letter word about Sinn Féin.

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What’s up next?? A sitcom on The Holocaust maybe with funny fat Nazis eating victims alive? Or how about a comedy about Ebola with black kids dying on screen and doctors telling funny jokes about them?

Fianna Fáil’s David McGuinness didn’t find news of a sitcom about The Famine that funny.

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“This has been the toughest decision of my life, and one which both me and my family have agonised over for a good deal of time.”

Liverpool’s Steven Gerrard won’t be on Merseyside for much longer – he’s leaving at the end of the season.

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We believe we can resume suspended senior-level talks and hold other talks on specific issues if South Korea sincerely has a position that it wants to improve North-South relations through a dialogue.

Kim Jong-Un gave a New Year’s Day speech, calling the Sony hack a “righteous deed”.

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Never ever buy a puppy for Christmas…all you do is encourage puppy farms to breed ever more dogs.

Billy Gallagher of Athlone SPCA after puppies were abandoned on the road on Christmas Day.

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The State pension is absolutely secure.

Joan Burton on a discussion paper that suggested cutting the payment.

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