Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘This thing has lasted, don’t let it go.’

Bill Clinton, speaking on the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement

‘I need to define what “adults only” means. Some people think it’s going to be an Ann Summers shop.’

Alan Andrews, café chain founder who plans to open a café in Tipperary that bans children under 12, so it can be a quiet place for adults

‘I think they were delusional. Ireland thought it was a joke at the time.’

Bob Geldof, arguing that the leaders of the 1916 Rising were utterly wrongheaded and that Ireland was better off under the British Empire

‘I thought, “Well, a woman playing a man playing a woman, I haven’t done that yet. Why not?”’

Kathleen Turner, actress, on playing the character of Chandler Bing’s burlesque star father in Friends

‘My baby’s the size of an heirloom tomato today. I googled it.’

Vogue Williams, left, keeping us up to date with her pregnancy

‘I have got very used to my own ways. I know I drive people mad because I want everything to be right and correct.’

Francis Brennan, hotelier and TV presenter, on why he is happy living alone

‘Mark Zuckerberg is now living out every young person’s worst nightmare: trying to explain how tech stuff works to the nation’s elderly.’

Robby Soave, US journalist, on the Facebook chief’s appearance before the ageing members of a US Senate committee for questioning during the week