IT WAS A week when we witnessed a Dáil sit-in, those who died in World War I were remembered, and Love/Hate shocked the nation.
All that, and more, it’s the week in quotes:
Sinn Féin TD Mary Lou McDonald on her Dáil sit-in.
If you want to have a history debate, pal, I’ll see you after this – now it’s not a thick you’re talking to.
Dublin Lord Mayor Christy Burke’s reaction to a protester who confronted him at a Remembrance Day ceremony.
Brendan is finally getting the dignity of a funeral Mass today.
The words of Father Aidan Brankin during his homily at the funeral mass of Brendan Megraw, whose body was found last month 36 years after he went missing.
I have never given illegal tax instructions … don’t depict me as a friend of big capital.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on tax deals made in Luxembourg during his time as prime minister.
Events such as this play a significant part in helping to reconcile the social wounds that emerged almost a century ago when the different forms of personal sacrifice of Ireland’s youth, both in the Great War and the Easter Rising, were harshly compared to each other.
Chairman of Glasnevin Trust John Green on Armistice Day.
I came in and people were just kinda looking at me. Then I read it, and I had to sit back for a minute and really think about it.
Peter Coonan, who plays Fran in Love/Hate, on discovering that his character would be involved in a rape scene.
Erupt volcanoes of jihad everywhere.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a recording released this week allegedly proving he had not been killed in an air strike.
He’s a tall, good-looking man, there’s a certain exotic feel to Leo.
Former Fine Gael strategist Frank Flannery’s thoughts on Minister Leo Varadkar. [Irish Examiner]
We’ll see what happens, but I don’t think we’ll be allowed to get out a JCB and dig around the county’s border.
South Kerry Independent Party councillor Michael Gleeson on plans to declare Kerry an island.
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