2015 in pics and quotes - November

In our year in review series, we look back at November 2015.

• “They didn’t stop firing. There was blood everywhere, corpses everywhere. We heard screaming. Everyone was trying to flee.” — Pierre Janaszak, a radio presenter, describing the scene at the Bataclan concert venue, one of five locations in Paris targeted by terrorists who killed 130 people in a night of gun and bomb attacks.
• “Mr Carey absolutely and unconditionally denies any impropriety in this matter or in his 30 years’ experience as a teacher, as a community worker, and in public life.” — A statement issued on behalf of former government minister Pat Carey in response to allegations of historical child abuse.
• “We have come to Paris to show our resolve... to protect our people, and to uphold the enduring values that keep us strong and keep us free. We salute the people of Paris for insisting this crucial conference go on.” — US President Barack Obama at the opening of the climate change conference in Paris.
• “We feel so honoured and privileged to be not only the first, but now that we are actually married, as well.” — Richard Dowling, after he and Cormac Gollogly became the first same-sex couple to be married in Ireland.
• “I was so surprised at the results, I kept looking at them for ages. I really couldn’t believe what I was seeing.” — Prof Tom Cotter after he and fellow scientists at University College Cork developed a molecule derived from berries that can kill leukaemia.
• “The Irish Examiner led with a simple but poignant tribute to the late great Jonah Lomu on their front page — a leaf falling from a silver fern drawn over a black background.” — New Zealand news website stuff.co.nz commenting on this newspaper’s salute to the rugby legend on his death at the age of 40.