Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘Trump cancels… One less bad apple to worry about.’ Bulmers cider, with a new advertising slogan after the US president’s visit to Ireland was called off

‘One guy made a “thick drunken Irish” comment in the middle of a colonoscopy I was doing on him, which was incredibly brave of him, to be fair.’ Anthony O’Connor, gastroenterologist, on encountering anti-Irishness while he was working in Britain

‘Do we call him Father Trev or the Rev Trev?’ John Gormley, former Green Party leader, on the Church of Ireland ordination last weekend of another former Green leader, Trevor Sargent

‘Oh no, I know exactly what I did with my time before I had a baby. I went for lovely dinners and I went out and had cheese and wine and went to the gym and went out with my friends.’ Kathryn Thomas, TV presenter who now has a six-month-old daughter, sounds nostalgic for her old life

‘I’m really pleased. I’ve just been sent a year’s free supply of KFC vouchers. Of course I’m going to use them, they’re my favourite.’ Brian McFadden, former Westlife singer, on the follow-up to reality TV star Gemma Collins’s claim she had ‘wanted to jump on him’ when he was in her apartment but couldn’t because he was eating a bucket of KFC

‘There are two types of people in the world: those who notice a stamp on a letter is unfranked and painstakingly peel it off to re-use, and those who just throw it away and can somehow still sleep at night.’ Maia Dunphy, TV presenter