Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘You are hereby terminated.’ Donald Trump, unceremoniously sacking FBI chief James Comey in a letter ‘For a first go it was very, very good. Maybe if he was back here a few years ago, Brian Cody would have signed him up.’ Henry Shefflin, on Prince Charles’s prowess with a hurley, which impressed onlookers in Kilkenny this week ‘I’m a lousy patient. I’m on 18 tablets a day and they’re driving me mad.’ Gay Byrne, 82, talking about coping

with prostate cancer ‘A hard border between the countries would be a disaster.’ Tony Blair, on Brexit and the border with Northern Ireland ‘It was sending a boy out to do a man’s job.’ Shay Healy, songwriter and personality, criticising Brendan Murray’s unsuccessful performance for Ireland at Eurovision ‘I did kiss DiCaprio 15 times but it’s no fun kissing actors. It’s like kissing someone in a dentist’s waiting room.’ Joanna Lumley, actress ‘I’m walking round the house talking to him in the thickest Irish accent I possibly can.’ Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian who now lives in Los Angeles, on his fear that his 16-month-old son will end up with an LA accent ‘I get to decide when I take the bins out, not if I take the bins out.’ Philip May, husband of British prime minister Theresa May, on domestic chores ‘Who told him he can act? Probably the same person who told Victoria she can sing.’ Twitter user, condemning David Beckham’s big screen debut in King Arthur