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'Forget about takeaway pints': The week in quotes

Here’s what was said and who said what this week.

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I think we’re all terrified of being in a situation in which people that we normally would definitely be sending to ICU – people who are relatively young, who have a good baseline, who we think would be able to climb that hill at the other end – where we’re not going to have enough beds.

Professor Clíona Ní Cheallaigh, a consultant in infectious diseases and internal medicine at St James’ Hospital, on the pressure faced by the HSE during the third wave.

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We love you, you’re all very special. Go home.

Donald Trump’s message to protesters who stormed the US Capitol.

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If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral.

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell was among senior US Republicans to turn their back on Trump.

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Just because most of the students are underage doesn’t mean they can be dispensed of or sacrificed for the greater good of the education sector.

Caoímhe Ní Chonchoille, from Tipperary, on plans for Leaving Cert students to attend class three days a week – the government has now backtracked on this plan.

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It was wrong for me. It was wrong of me.

Former RTÉ newsreader Aengus Mac Grianna apologised for his role in a controversial comedy sketch.

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Forget about takeaway pints, takeaway alcohol. No publican should be selling takeaway pints.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, not a fan of the takeaway pint.

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It’s great to get it. I don’t know how to describe it, it’s that good.

78-year-old Michael Delaney, from Co Offaly, on being among care home residents who received the first dose of a Covid vaccine this week.

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    Mute Henry Clarke
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    May 19th 2020, 9:47 AM

    Ah, the Saudis….a great bunch o lads.

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    May 19th 2020, 9:30 AM

    Really?! I am shocked…NOT!

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    May 19th 2020, 9:38 AM

    @Optimus Prime: I am shocked that it took them 1yr to crack the phone encryption. I thought they bragged about a company which sold decryption software for iPhone.
    Maybe US is just choosing right time to out the news.

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    May 19th 2020, 9:38 AM

    @Optimus Prime: Time to call in the decepticons Optimus!

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    May 19th 2020, 9:40 AM

    How do you know someone has an iPhone? They tell you.

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    May 19th 2020, 9:47 AM

    @Oretani Wildlife: How do you know someone has no value to contribute to a discussion but craves attention like a little child, irrelevant jokes.

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    May 19th 2020, 10:02 AM

    @Oretani Wildlife: what a contribution!

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    May 19th 2020, 10:18 AM

    @Oretani Wildlife: that joke is about 9 years old. Well done.

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    May 19th 2020, 11:12 AM

    @Oretani Wildlife: Some would argue that the only people who talk about iPhones are the ones that don’t own one!

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    May 19th 2020, 2:34 PM

    Touchy touchy, boys. You should call round and brighten up my day.

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    May 19th 2020, 9:52 AM

    Okay so it was Saudi nationals that carried out the 911 attack and this one but they are big big customers of the arms exporters and bomb industry, and allies in the fight against whoever is the current bogey man.

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    May 19th 2020, 10:26 AM

    When you train Saudi Army pilots in the USA and U.K. what can go wrong ?

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    May 19th 2020, 11:06 AM

    Saudi kingdom is an abomination in the 21century, one family controlling trillions of dollars of the country’s wealth for their personal benefit. I’m a small capitalist but for such a regime to exist, and bizarrely supported by the USA, while US pretend to preach democracy, US foreign policy has always displayed a total hypocrisy to its espoused values, if there was any benefit to themselves. America first, yes that sums it up, f.u,,. the rest of the world.  this cosy relationship with Saudi, us forces based there, is why Osama bin laden was motivated to start his war with the USA.

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    May 19th 2020, 10:25 AM

    Get Carrie and Saul on the case!

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    May 19th 2020, 12:43 PM

    @John Quill: Carrie’s watching Russian opera these days…(spoiler alert).

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    May 19th 2020, 2:58 PM

    @Declan McArdle: saw it

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    May 19th 2020, 10:38 AM

    It’s amazing that the terrorist have a 5 year old iPhone with all that info on it.

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    May 19th 2020, 11:10 AM

    So the group behind it claimed it was them but the US gov is arguing that all iPhone users should have their privacy undermined, definitely by US government more than likely by others and also possibly non state actors because they weren’t 100% sure when the terrorist organisation said “that’s our guy!”, about a guy from a nation that produced 9/11 and many other attackers, that they were telling the truth?

    I mean, if this stopped an incoming attack or something I could see the logic in having a debate but there’s no way this is worth even considering undermining everyone’s privacy, it’s law enforcement being either pedantic or too lazy (to trace his contact to the group through traditional means) or more than likely not trusting their Saudi counterparts which is a crack in the wall that should not be wall papered over yet again, especially at such a great cost to privacy.

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    May 19th 2020, 3:20 PM

    Time to invade Iraq again so.

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