Quotes OF THE WEEK

‘Leo Varadkar is running rings around us… he always gets the last word and our man isn’t up to it.’ FF TD Marc MacSharry, on Taoiseach Micheál Martin at a parliamentary party meeting this week.

‘My heart stopped ticking so I was up there and the good Lord must have said, “Send the old bag down again, I’m not having her yet.” ’

Actress Diana Rigg, who died this week aged 82, on a near

miss in 2017.

‘Remember those days when gender revealing was better known as flashing? All that was needed was a trench coat and a pair of wellies.’ Comic Billy Connolly, after learning that one Californian wildfire was caused by a firework at a ‘gender reveal’ party.

‘There’s a bun in the oven! Listen I know I’m a pun hun and this is pun hun’s bun pun but there IS an actual little bun in the oven.’ Amy Huberman, announces her pregnancy on Instagram.

‘This is a disgrace to artists everywhere… can you imagine telling Picasso what had to be in his f ****** paintings?’ Actress Kirstie Alley, rages at new woke diversity rules introduced for the Oscars.

‘I saved his a**. I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.’ US president Donald Trump, boasts he protected Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to Bob Woodward’s new book.

‘Anger towards men is actually a joyful and emancipatory path.’

Pauline Harmange, a French feminist author, as sales of her book, I Hate Men, rocketed after a government adviser on gender equality tried to have it banned.