Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘I’ll miss her. A recent poll of 11,000 gardaí found that 490,000 had confidence in her and only 225,000 didn’t.’ A Twitter user, responding to the news that Nóirín O’Sullivan was retiring as Garda commissioner

‘I’d never give up work… Sure what would you get up for and where would you go?’ The unnamed winner of last week’s €2.95m Lotto jackpot, says life will continue as normal

‘It’s only a matter of time before a newspaper, most likely a weekend newspaper, decides that I’m really not gay at all and it was probably something that the Strategic Communications Unit came up with.’ Leo Varadkar, joking in his speech to the Fine Gael think-in this week

‘I don’t want to hear my voice. It is in the past.’ Dame Kiri Tekanawa, soprano, announcing her retirement at the age of 73

‘GRA members did not falsify figures. GRA members were told to elevate figures by middle and senior management and those figures were elevated.’ John O’Keeffe, Garda Representative Association spokesman, ties himself in knots as he tries to defend GRA members over the falsified breath tests controversy

‘Russian joke: In the interrogation room of the security services in 2018: “Don’t hit his face too hard, we still need to unlock his iPhone!”’ Garry Kasparov, Russian human rights activist and former world chess champion, on the new iPhone’s face recognition software

‘Chopped up in bags in my freezer.’ George Osborne, former British Conservative chancellor, in a reported remark about how he would like to see Theresa May after she sacked him last year