QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“I’m dying and I didn’t even need to die, and I’m only 37. Last night I was in bed and I was having this really bad dream. I dreamt that I was dying last night and I wasn’t ready because I hadn’t said goodbye to my children...” Mother-of-five Emma Mhic Mhathuna, one of scores of Irish women who were wrongly told they had normal smear tests through the CervicalCheck screening programme, speaks to RTE’s Morning Ireland about her diagnosis after being told she has terminal cancer. She finished saying: “Yesterday I had to sit down with the teachers and I was like ‘What are we going to do?’ Do you understand what I mean?”
“I do. Emma, there’s nothing I can say. I’m so, so sorry. I’m so, so sorry.” Interviewer Audrey Carville breaks down and ends one of the most moving interviews on radio in recent years.
“It’s absolutely marvellous. It’s going to be a very special day for everybody.” Prince Charles on the forthcoming royal wedding in Britain.
“Since her 80th birthday last August, a definite continual confusion has set in, so it’s becoming a lot more difficult for us to hide.” Scott Mitchell, revealing that his wife, film and TV star Dame Barbara Windsor, is suffering from Alzheimer’s.
“He is such a fighter, he will pull through. It is Fergie time, and you will win. You always do.” Eric Cantona, the former Manchester United star, speaking as his former manager Sir Alex Ferguson leaves intensive care after his brain operation.
“Trump’s body will turn to ashes and be food for worms.” Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the US president tore up an international deal to limit Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.
“I was quite panicked by this project and I read every book there is on the subject. I met lots of people that knew Thorpe. I dug up old films, out of the bowels of the BBC. I don’t know if it does any good, but it soothed me a bit.” Actor Hugh Grant on playing Jeremy Thorpe in a TV version of the former British Liberal leader’s trial and acquittal for conspiracy to murder.
“It was cold up there. I had so many layers on me I looked like the Michelin Man.” Norma Howard (91), of Fleet, Hampshire, after wingwalking in the skies above Cirencester in England.
“Please don’t invite me to an event and then uninvite me because Bill Clinton then decided to attend.” Monica Lewinsky, who had a sexual encounter with the expresident in the White House.
“Madame May is weak and Boris Johnson has the same hairdo as Trump. That says everything.” Gunther Oettinger, the German EU commissioner.
“Harper is playing every Sunday and loves it. The boys don’t play and it’s heartbreaking. They have a talent, but it’s down to Harper now. I get very enthusiastic watching her.” David Beckham is disappointed his three sons don’t play football, but is excited about his daughter’s love of the game.