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'F**k Trump': The week in quotes

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

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One of the women, a survivor of Bethany, spoke about her arduous and painful search for her birth mother, and how her desire for information was blocked at every turn. One day she finally found her, buried in a pauper’s grave. With great dignity and courage, she purchased the grave, as an act to claim identity without shame, and to do the right thing where others had failed.

Minister Katherine Zappone on the struggle by one person who was illegally adopted to find their birth mothers.

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Absolutely pathetic.

Minister Simon Harris has said it is “absolutely pathetic” and “not acceptable” that unsearchable documents were sent to the Cervical Check scoping probe.

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I’m not proud of the transfer fee, nor of the fact I’m the most expensive player ever That’s just money and nothing else. I cannot help it. Personally, I would have paid less for myself.

Brazilian footballer Neymar on the €222 million Paris Saint-Germain paid to sign him.

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Our young people are criminalised. Our young people are deprived of life chances. 360 odd die of overdoses – that’s more than three times the number of people who die on the roads. And yet we’re here in a small town hall meeting discussing this issue. This is a bigger issue for Irish society than possibly is commonly perceived.

Former assistant garda commissioner Jack Nolan called for the decriminalisation of people caught with small amounts of illicit drugs.

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I have huge time for the people of Wexford, they’ve been extremely nice to me and I’ve worked extremely well here, but I’ve been struggling to provide a service for 16 years and I actually can’t do it anymore, really.

Dr Kieran Moore, a specialist consultant paediatric psychiatrist, told RTÉ Radio One’s Today with Sean O’Rourke that he was resigning along with two other colleagues.

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He speaks and his people sit up in attention. I want my people to do the same.

Donald Trump, President of the United States of America, on Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea.

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Fuck Trump.

The finale of Robert De Niro attack on Trump at the Tony Awards.

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    Mute Mairead1990
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    Aug 28th 2019, 7:45 PM

    At least the fascist Salvini and his rosary beads are gone, that sure back-fired on the Mini Mussolini.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 9:49 PM

    @Mairead1990: When the inevitable collapse happens, we’ll see what Italians think of Salvini & his immigration stance. I get the feeling he’s playing the long game especially if the present coalition fall back into being subservient to EU ambitions.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 10:07 PM

    @Mairead1990: It will last as long as 2 week holiday ha ha , Salvini will come to power . Thees parties only came together to keep him out. Roll on the Mediterranean taxi service ha ha

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    Aug 28th 2019, 11:57 PM

    @Paul Whelan: Ha ha

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    Aug 28th 2019, 7:16 PM

    Anti establishment and establishment. Sounds like that will work out alright.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 7:54 PM

    @Thomas Quinn: well antiestablishment and anti establishment didn’t work out too well either

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    Aug 28th 2019, 7:21 PM

    It’s Italy. Don’t like the government? wait a few months. No wonder it’s a basket case.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 11:58 PM

    @GrahamMManning: it’s a basket case because first it was a threat to German industry and once the Lira was gone they couldn’t compete. All to do with the EU. Italy is a great country with great people and watching its demise is sickening.

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    Aug 28th 2019, 7:19 PM

    Yuck.

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