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'What did she say? ‘You bae’? What does that mean, child?': The week in quotes

‘Labour are going to have a good long period, if it exists at all, to repent for the broken promises of the last few years – we’ll lend you a couple of the sackcloths.’

IT WAS A week when the Davos conference got underway, the debate surrounding the same-sex marriage referendum took off, and a Minister spoke about his sexuality.

All that, and more, it’s the week in quotes.

Fianna Fail Ard Fheis Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland Laura Hutton / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

Labour are going to have a good long period, if it exists at all, to repent for the broken promises of the last few years – we’ll lend you a couple of the sackcloths.

Fianna Fáil’s Willie O’Dea on The Labour Party’s future.

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America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.

Billionaire Jeff Greene speaking at Davos, where he flew with his family – and two nannies – this week.

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Leaving senior Garda officers the responsibility to terminate specific tickets and other fixed charge notices is akin to giving a fox responsibility to secure a hen house. It can never work and it will never work.

Garda whistleblower John Wilson on the renewed penalty points controversy.

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Women share this planet 50/50 and they are under-represented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

Emma Watson, speaking at the World Economic Forum.

Young Scientist Exhibitions Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland Sasko Lazarov / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

You’re like Saint Augustine: ‘Lord make me reform, but not just yet.’

Tánaiste Joan Burton to Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou McDonald during Leaders’ Questions this week.

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Do you think we should change the Constitution to allow grandmothers and their daughters to marry?

The Iona Institute’s Breda O’Brien on the wording of the Marriage Equality referendum.

File Photo: Fine Gael Minister for Health Leo Varadkar announced on RTE today that he is a gay man. Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

It’s not something that defines me, I’m not a half-Indian politician or a doctor politician, I’m not a gay politician for that matter, it’s just part of who I am.

Minister for Health Leo Varadkar spoke publicly about his sexuality for the first time.

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What did she say? ‘You bae’? What does that mean, child?

Johnny Depp was left a little confused by young people speak.

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