Graphic of the week
Nasa's discovery of seven Earth-like planets
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GOOD WEEK
David Bowie: Although he died more than a year ago, this week's Brit Awards confirmed the Thin White Duke's outsize status in British music as he posthumously claimed the awards for album of the year and best male artist. "If David Bowie could be here tonight," the actor Michael C Hall said, "he probably wouldn't be here tonight."
Pint Baby: Even in the era of the minimally talented celebrity Stephen Barron found an unusual way to gain his 15 seconds of fame, after 20-year-old footage of him as an infant drinking from a pint of Guinness in a Co Clare pub went viral.
BAD WEEK
Simon Harris: In what must be one of the most embarrassing ways of becoming involved in a leadership contest imaginable, the Minister for Health was touted as a potential candidate to replace Enda Kenny in a leaked WhatsApp message from Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan, along with the assertion that Harris is keen to get out of Health.
Wayne Shaw: Nonleague reserve goalkeepers don't tend to make international headlines, but that all changed when Sutton's back-up keeper tucked into a pie at half-time in their FA Cup tie against Arsenal. A betting company had offered odds on just that occurring, and Shaw quit amid the ensuing furore.
SOUNDBITES
He was a man who struggled. Struggled with himself, with wanting to do the right thing. He realised he made mistakes; he apologised for his mistakes and kept going
Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin on the death of his predecessor Desmond Connell
What led to the collapse was an unreasonable demand that no worker should have to put up with and that no semi-State worker has had to put up with before. We cannot magic up €12 million in payroll savings overnight
Siptu organiser Greg Ennis after the collapse of Bus Éireann talks at the Workplace Relations Commission
I'm sick of saying nothing, of biting my lip and it getting me absolutely nowhere. We didn't ask for this, for any of this to be brought up and put into the public
The woman who made accusations against Garda whistleblower Maurice McCabe in 2006
The biggest responsibility for his death rests with the government of Malaysia, as the citizen of the DPRK died in its land
North Korea tries to downplay its role in the assassination of Kim Jong-nam
SEVEN DAYS IN NUMBERS
74
Number of migrants whose bodies washed up on a beach in Libya after they drowned in the Mediterranean
3.3%
Rise in the total employment figures last year, according to the CSO
6.5%
Increase in the pay gap between men and women in Ireland since 2012, according to new figures
10
Portions of fruit and veg that we should now eat each day – doubling the previous recommendation – to maximise our health, according to new research
140km/h
The wind speed reached by Storm Doris on Wednesday night, leaving up to 56,000 homes without power
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