Quotes of the week
“We acknowledge the thousands of young women who have passed through the gates full of hope and confidence. Full of an ability to face the world. And though today is about all of that, it is also about a wonderful young woman, our own Katie Murphy. Our fifth year, who God has seen fit to take to his side.” The principal of St Angela’s in Waterford, Edel Connolly, talks to Katie’s school friends after the 16-year-old was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Tramore.
“I think we need everyone to step up to the mark. The performance in the first half shows we need everybody at it. We can’t afford to carry anybody.” Ireland soccer manager Martin O’Neill accepts that he needs a big lift in performance levels from Thursday night at the Aviva against Moldova tonight.
“I started realising ‘Wow, this is not going to happen’ — a $240m movie that doesn’t star a white person.” Actor Ethan Hawke, who scrapped plans to do an Apache film for that reason.
“It appears to me that I was talking to a brick wall.” Alan Sugar addressing the losing team after its first task in the first episode of the new series of The Apprentice.
“He’s an extraordinary actor and I think he’s the best modern Bond that we have had and I desperately want him back. Come back, Daniel!” James Bond actress Naomie Harris pleads with co-star Daniel Craig to return as 007.
“What is being done is evil both in the strict theological sense and in the general sense. It is demonic. It’s the absolute contempt for the human spirit. For the dignity of the human being.” The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, on the slaughter in Aleppo, Syria.
“I get a salary from her. She runs all the accounts.” TV’s Ben Fogle discloses that his wife, Marina, controls the family finances.
“They say Donald Trump loves Putin. I don’t love, I don’t hate. We’ll see how it works.” Donald Trump, US presidential candidate.
“If you put too much filling in, you won’t get it in your mouth.” Paul Hollywood’s cheeky innuendo in The Great British Bake Off.
“My great discovery of the past 10 years or so is that actually news doesn’t matter. There is something about the frenetic urgency, the faux seriousness that affects newsreaders when they tell us of things about which we can do absolutely nothing.” Broadcaster Jeremy Paxman.
“It’s a chance to re-calibrate, to take pause and work out if you just want to be known as a topless, bird-flipping, diamond-flashing, trash-talking sex tape celebrity — or something more meaningful and influential.” TV’s Piers Morgan in an open letter to Kim Kardashian, after she was robbed of jewellery worth €10m.
“We’ve lost everything we own. But it would have been our fault if we stayed here and died.” Cenita Leconte, 75, who initially ignored official calls to evacuate her shack before Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti.