Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘I put my arms out like getting a ruby ball. I took it like an egg and cradled it, and she started smiling at me when she came down. She just started giggling.’

Mark Furlong, on catching baby Mila Murphy when she was dropped from a second-floor window by her father to

save her from a house fire in Dublin ‘My regret is standing at the rail of the QE2 with Jimmy Savile, who I personally disliked intensely before everyone else did, and not tipping him over the rail while I had the chance .’

Michael Buerk, on I’m A Celebrity ‘That’s grand. I marked him in an under-16 match a few years ago and kept him scoreless.’

Brendan Griffin, Kerry Fine Gael TD, says he is unruffled by rumours that footballer Colm ‘Gooch’ Cooper could

run for the party in his constituency ‘I re-broke my rib getting into a corset. I wanted to get my waist down to 18 inches.’

Nicole Kidman, reveals how she wanted to emulate Vivien Leigh, when she starred in Moulin Rouge ‘One time, Action Man was a cross-dresser and he’d try to wear Barbie’s clothes.’

Brian Dowling, reveals his childhood adventures with Action Man on TV3’s

Toy Show ‘I’m not a violent person. When you sing a song like that, you don’t believe in every word that is in the song.’

John Delaney, FAI boss, apologises for singing a republican song in a pub ‘We all love the entertainment sport gives us so to see something like this... it is something that should never happen.’

Shane Warne, on fellow cricketer Phillip Hughes’s death from a delivery ‘I haven’t croaked at all. I may have put myself in an embarrassing position.’

Clive James, who predicted he would be dead by this autumn