Quotes OF THE WEEK
‘We can’t go mad again.’
Michael Noonan, Finance Minister, as Ireland exited the bailout last Sunday ‘There were two men who used to come every Friday. Sometimes they paid my mum’s electricity bill, sometimes they would pay the coal. My mother used to tell me that they were my Uncle Vincent and my Uncle Paul.’
Brendan O’Carroll, comedian, on how the Society of St Vincent de Paul
helped out when he was a child ‘He loves bacon and cabbage with turnip and his stew as well.’
Maura Gallagher, mother of One Direction’s Niall Horan, says fame
hasn’t changed him very much ‘I wanted to be husband number eight but we ran out of road.’
Colin Farrell, on the close friendship he struck up with Elizabeth Taylor
shortly before she died
‘I don’t know how to smile, so I stick my tongue out, because I don’t know what else to do.’
Miley Cyrus, on why she’s constantly pictured sticking her tongue out ‘The people in my area are expected to drink glorified p*** and the minister of state will charge them for it.’
Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, independent TD, attacking Fine Gael junior minister Fergus O’Dowd over the introduction
of water charges when the water in his constituency is undrinkable due to
cryptosporidium ‘I really got into the groove of beating people up in front of the camera.’
Victoria Smurfit, actress, says she particularly enjoyed filming the violent
scenes for TV drama Dracula