Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘That’s like saying in a negotiation: “Either you give me what I want or I’m jumping out of the window.”’ Tánaiste Simon Coveney, on British government threats that the country could crash out of the EU without any deal ‘I just went to the doctor, complaining of shortness of breath. It turns out I love rugby too much.’ Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, ahead of the Ireland-England game ‘Without ammunition, it’s like a golfer travelling without his golf clubs.’ ‘Frank’, a big-game hunter who rang RTÉ’s Liveline during the week to complain that an airline had lost his bullets ‘I would rather go home and have a cup of mint tea.’ Clelia Murphy, actress and Dancing With The Stars contestant, says there won’t be any romance for her on the set of the dance show ‘I see that Simon Harris has bravely decided that the buck stops with some faceless bureaucrat.’ John McGuirk, PR expert, on the Health Minister’s promise that heads will roll over the soaring cost of the National Children’s Hospital ‘In my head I was just going: “Don’t cry, don’t cry, don’t cry.”’ Holly Carpenter, responding to criticism that she looked sour and angry when she was voted off Dancing With The Stars ‘It turns out that Mr Spock has three ears: the left ear, the right ear and the final front ear.’ Stephen King, horror writer, with an unexpected joke ‘I wish Nicolas Maduro and his top advisers a long, quiet retirement, living on a nice beach somewhere far from Venezuela.’ John Bolton, Donald Trump’s national security adviser, piling pressure on the corrupt Venezuelan president to step aside