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'The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza': The week in quotes

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

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It is very significant, and possibly the most significant cybercrime attack on the Irish State

Minister of State Ossian Smyth on the ransomware attack that crippled the HSE this week.

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We’re very clear: we will not be paying any ransom or engaging in any of that sort of stuff.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin on the ransom demanded by the hackers.

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Surely, if you believe that Jew, Arab, Christian and people who have no religion – which I certainly do by the way – that they can and should live by side by side with equal rights, grant all those Palestinians and their descendants the right to return. Then your Orwellian narrative of trying to justify the continued annexation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinian territory might have some credibility, but unless you actually confer equality in the law and the basic laws of the state, whether you call it Israel or Palestine, then it is a fact that your state is an apartheid state.

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett speaking to Israeli ambassador Ophir Kariv during a sitting of the Oireachtas Foreign Affairs Committee this week.

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The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today.

A statement from The Associated Press after the Israeli military bombed a building containing its Gaza office.

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I had a big economic investment in the future of Greensill, so I wanted the business to succeed, I wanted it to grow.

Former UK prime minister David Cameron spoke to MPs about his involvement with Greensill Capital.

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We have kept trolley figures suppressed for much of the pandemic, but we are slipping back into old habits. The HSE cannot allow trolley figures to rise and rise. Overcrowding is simply unsafe for patients – especially during a pandemic. It is placing intolerable pressure on an exhausted workforce who are now working to provide mass vaccinations in addition to a Covid and non-Covid healthcare service.

INMO General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha on overcrowding in Irish hospitals reaching levels not seen since before the pandemic.

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Could you manage your life for a year on €12,000? And perform at the absolute highest level in your job? Probably not. So why are we expecting elite-level athletes to do it? I don’t know, is the answer.

Former spring hurdles athlete Derval O’Rourke called for a ‘full review’ into the funding system in Irish sport.

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    Mute Sinéad Uí Chrosáin
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    Apr 10th 2021, 10:26 PM

    I always thought scallions and spring onions were the same! Had to Google it to see the difference.

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    Apr 10th 2021, 10:50 PM

    Your quizes are becoming worse and worse… yet I keep doing them!

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    Apr 10th 2021, 10:49 PM

    14/15 – can’t believe I got the potato one wrong!

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    Apr 11th 2021, 12:15 AM

    Since when is a scallion NOT a spring onion (asking for a friend…)

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    Apr 11th 2021, 8:21 AM

    @Miriam Kelliher: Since coriander is the seed and cilantro is the leaf of the same plant.

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    Apr 10th 2021, 10:28 PM

    12. I never heard of some of them .

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    Apr 10th 2021, 11:46 PM

    13 out of 15. Not bad. What on God’s green earth is a persimmon

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    Apr 11th 2021, 7:21 AM

    @Anna Carr: also called a kaki fruit/Sharon fruit. They’re delicious

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    Apr 10th 2021, 10:13 PM

    7 out of 15, I had better not be thinking of becoming a vegetarian.

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    Apr 10th 2021, 11:16 PM

    That potato one was tough

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    Apr 10th 2021, 11:09 PM

    Did you know that the Catalans go mad for onions? It’s called a Calçotada, a tradition whereby people eat BBQed skinny onions (calçots) with BBQ’ed peppers and aubergine (escalivada) and meat, they dip the onions in a sauce called romesco, which is delicious.

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    Apr 11th 2021, 8:24 AM

    @Jj: Did you know Videlia onions grown in Georgia, USA are so sweet many take a thick slice of the large onion and make a sandwich of it?

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    Apr 10th 2021, 11:44 PM

    13…. that apple one was just random. Also got the celery one wrong.

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    Apr 11th 2021, 12:42 AM

    I got 12, spring onion who knew!

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    Apr 11th 2021, 8:33 AM

    How am I supposed to know the specific type of apple?

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    Apr 11th 2021, 7:27 AM

    Ha. Fun.

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    Apr 11th 2021, 10:59 AM

    FFS, scallions and spring onions are the same thing.

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    Apr 11th 2021, 8:48 AM

    10/ 15- not to bad for a Swede…. spring onion= vårlök!!

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    Apr 10th 2021, 11:29 PM

    Yeah, right

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    Apr 11th 2021, 10:00 AM

    This was hard. But, I tend to buy the same few things every week so not too surprising….

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    Apr 12th 2021, 12:11 AM

    10/15, would eat again.

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