QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“All you can be in your life is honest with yourself and I was getting to the point where I wasn’t being honest with myself and I didn’t like myself very much because I wasn’t being honest with myself.”
TV presenter Phillip Schofield after revealing on Instagram that he is gay.
“I’ve done things wrong in my life, I will admit... but this is what the end result is.”
President Trump holding up a copy of The Washington Post with the headline “Trump acquitted”, following his acquittal in the impeachment trial in the Republican dominated Senate. He handed the newspaper to his wife, Melania, and said that maybe they would frame it.
“Trump is ‘impeached forever’. No matter what the Senate does, it can never be erased.”
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy
Pelosi defiant on her decision to move forward with impeachment.
“I will accept an apology from Conor Murphy, when he comes out on national television and apologises to us. And when he has that done, I want him to go to the gardai and the PSNI and give them the names of the IRA men that he spoke to.” Breege Quinn almost 12 hours after Mary Lou McDonald faced questioning on her son’s murder.
“I have been working in Hollywood over 60 years and I’ve made over 85 pictures, but the thing I’m most proud of is breaking the blacklist.”
Kirk Douglas, who has died aged 103, speaking to the Jewish Chronicle in 2012.
“Some people hated it, some people loved it. It was all over the place. To those who didn’t like it, I totally get it, respect it. To those who loved it, I’m grateful” Director JJ Abrams discusses Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker, which brought the curtain down on the ninepart saga that began with the original film in 1977.
“People should realise that we have a common enemy of mankind. We should say ‘no’ to discriminatory words and behaviour.”
China’s ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming condemns reports of racism amid the coronavirus outbreak.
“What’s happening with our bumblebees is a huge problem. Hunger is killing them. They are literally starving to death. They come out of hibernation in February and March and need the nectar from flowering plants for food but the way we manage the landscape now means there aren’t enough flowers.”
Dr Una Fitzpatrick, who runs the bumblebee monitoring scheme for the National Biodiversity Data Centre, said their survival was in serious doubt.
“How on Earth do we tell the children about this?” Heartbroken relatives of Jason Corbett (39) speak of their anguish at how they would break the news that the Limerick businessman’s killers were being granted a full retrial in the US.
“I genuinely do feel blessed because we were both single going into it and that was the beauty of it all. It just happened, it was just natural. It’s not been anything forced, we’ve fallen in love and that’s it.”
Former Ireland footballer Kevin Kilbane (42) has revealed he has fallen for his Dancing on Ice partner, professional skater Brianne Delcourt.