QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“The committee deduced that the image showed the most appalling bad taste with a complete absence of respect for the horse at a time when it still remains in his charge.”
Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board revokes trainer Gordon Elliott’s licence for six months after the dead horse scandal.
“I am in this situation by my own action and I am not going to dodge away from this. With my position in the sport I have great privileges and great responsibility. I did not live up to that responsibility. “I am no longer the teenage boy who first rode a horse at Tony Martin’s 30 years ago. I am an adult with obligations and a position in a sport I have loved since I first saw horses race. I am paying a very heavy price for my error but I have no complaints. It breaks my heart to see the hurt I have caused to my colleagues, family, friends and supporters. I have a long road ahead of me but I will serve my time and then build back better. Trainer Gordon Elliott reacts to news of his six-month ban after photo scandal.
“My biggest concern was history repeating itself.
I’m just really relieved and happy to be sitting here, talking to you, with my wife by my side, because I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like for her, going through this process by herself, all those years ago.”
Prince Harry speaks about his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.
“As I finish this book, it doesn’t end at chapter nine, there’s a new chapter coming into my life — in the form of a baby girl currently growing inside me and that scares the s*** out of me.”
TV presenter Laura Whitmore reveals she is having a baby girl with her husband, Iain Stirling.
“Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, I’m begging of you, please don’t hesitate. Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, because once you’re dead, then that’s a bit too late.”
Dolly Parton celebrates receiving a Covid-19 vaccine she helped fund by adapting the lyrics of Jolene.
“After 15 or 20 years of carousing the way I caroused and drinking the way I drank, the sober world is a pretty scary world. I remember being more nervous, and being more uncomfortable initially, at the film festival than any others because I didn’t have any booze.”
Actor Colin Farrell recalls his first sober Dublin Film Festival.
“I’ve been doing a lot, in fact, everything I can, to lose weight and to feel fitter and healthier. The result is I actually have lost some weight, quite a lot by my standards, and I feel much more energetic, I feel full of beans and I thoroughly, thoroughly recommend it.” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
“I would dearly love to get to a point where I don’t have to think about Alex Salmond’s behaviour, or alleged behaviour, ever again, to be perfectly frank.” Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon gives evidence to the Holyrood inquiry.