Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘Just to be sure, I went down to my local Texaco petrol station around 8am to have the card checked. After that Christmas Day was a bit of a blur.’ Lottery winner Ciara Douglas, who scooped €50,000 on a scratch card bought for her as a gift by her sister ‘Storm Dylan will hit Ireland… It will meander aimlessly for what seems like hours and afterwards every man in his forties will tell you that it was the greatest storm ever.’ Parody Twitter account Mallow News, reacting to the news that a hard rain was gonna fall this weekend ‘Thank you, everyone, for all your love and support. I now have shiny new lungs.’ Orla Tinsley, cystic fibrosis campaigner on her delight after undergoing a lung transplant in the run-up to Christmas ‘It’s the family, I suppose, that she never had.’ Prince Harry, on how fiancée Meghan Markle, above, coped with Christmas with the Royals ‘In the East, it could be the ‘COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle up!’ Donald Trump, demonstrates his grasp of the dangers of climate change ‘I think music has got very girly. There are some good things about that but hip-hop is the only place for young male anger at the moment and that’s not good.’ Bono, in an interview with Rolling Stone, on the state of contemporary pop music. His intervention unwittingly sparked a wave of young (and not so young) female anger