IT WAS A week when Ireland went to the polls for the local and European elections.
Alan Shatter donated his severance payments to charity, and 1D came to town.
All that, and more – it’s the week in quotes:
She is still alive but it still feels like we lost her.
The words of Natasha McShane’s (pictured) mother, whose attacker was sentenced to 90 years for attacking McShane in Chicago, leaving her with brain injuries.
If Shatter was an ice cream, he’d lick himself.
A party colleague’s thoughts on the former Minister for Justice, who this week donated his roughly €50,000 worth severance payments to charity.
They are mid-term elections and as I said, using Barack Obama’s phrase, the Labour Party has taken a shellacking from citizens, from people who went out to vote.
Joan Burton summed up her party’s performance in the local elections.
He told me I didn’t have to worry there was nothing going to happen. I still had an eerie feeling and but it was already too late, I was already upstairs. That’s when he shut the door and I ended up spending 11 years in that house.
Michelle Knight detailed her incredibly horrific 11-year ordeal at the hands of Ariel Castro.
He’s trying to get money to make the city and world a better place, so people should stop cursing at him.
One child’s take on Enda Kenny.
There is no right way to end a relationship that has been so important to two people.The problem is mine. The wedding invitations issued at the weekend made me realise that I wasn’t ready for all that marriage entails.
Rory McIlroy’s choice of words in announcing that his engagement to tennis player Caroline Wozniacki is over.
I look forward to a changed environment in Irish politics.
Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s reaction to the rise of Sinn Féin and Independents in the local elections.
We went for a couple of pints and then we went to get a kebab and the kebab shop was closed.
Niall Horan’s sad tale about his night out in Mullingar earlier this week.
I’ve got a job, I’ve got a job, I’ve got a job… I’ve got two jobs! I can’t have another one.
Roy Keane distanced himself from the vacant manager’s job at Celtic.
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