Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘…Let’s say a local village where there’s two or three hundred families… let’s have 30 cars which we share. There will always be one available and maybe a short walk down to pick it up.’ Eamon Ryan comes under fire for suggesting a car pooling scheme for rural Ireland. The Green Party leader later ‘regrets’ his comments.

Unco-operative crusties.’

Boris Johnson’s description of Extinction Rebellion members who brought swathes of London to a standstill.

‘It’s like looking in a mirror!’

Prince Harry’s quip to Ed Sheeran – the pair appear together in a World Mental Health Day video.

‘This is a Budget without precedent.’

Opening line of Finance minister Paschal Donoghue’s Budget speech, greeted as perhaps the most boring in history.

‘It’s… Rebekah Vardy’s account’

‘Wagatha Christie’ aka Coleen Rooney unmasks the Instagram account she blames for leaking stories about her to the media. ‘Boris Johnson, what’s at stake is not winning some stupid blame game. At stake is the future of Europe and the UK as well as the security and interests of our people. You don’t want a deal, you don’t want an extension, you don’t want to revoke, quo vadis?’ European Council President Donald Tusk, accuses the UK prime minister of jeopardising the future security of the EU and UK

‘We’re not 15… it is disgusting and it’s childish’

Female trainee solicitor at Dublin’s Blackhall Place hits out at ‘highly offensive’ WhatsApp messages shared by male law trainees.