Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘I want to thank all of you for continuing to abide by public health advice. By doing so, you are saving lives and protecting our health service and its staff.’ Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, d uring his address to the nation on Friday as he announced that the current r estrictions w ill c ontinue until M ay 5 .

‘You are making it happen, you are flattening the curve and helping to protect frontline workers.’ Simon Harris, t he H ealth Minister’ s words of encouragement for citizens as he appealed for them toad here to the Covid-19 r estrictions.

‘I kicked him out. You didn’t want somebody in your bed quoting Shakespeare.’ Honor Blackman, who h as d ied aged 94, on how s he o nce rejected t he advances of Richard B urton.

‘So now we’ve got to social-distance from tigers? How many sunbathing meatheads feel invincible enough to break that rule?’ Twitter user after it was revealed that six t igers a re s howing coronavirus s ymptoms a nd o ne has t ested p ositive.

‘I don’t think we should shake hands ever again, to be honest with you.’ US expert Dr Anthony Fauci on a voiding i nfections even after the crisis is over.

‘The other day I was speaking to Ed Sheeran and… he was like, ‘Yeah, I’ve kind of like set myself a challenge. I’m going to try and write a song a day before lunch’. And he said, ‘If I can come out with one big song out of this quarantine period, then I’ve won.’

One Direction star Niall Horan, the M ullingar m an r eveals h ow Ed S heeran h as h elped h im tackle s ongwriting d uring t he coronavirus c risis.