QUOTES OF THE WEEK

‘I think anyone that goes near a referee or hits a referee should probably be banned for life, gone… end of story.’

Davy Fitzgerald, the hurling manager and former player, who admits to being confrontational with referees himself in the past, weighs in on the controversy in the GAA.

‘She wouldn’t have been well enough to come to London so West Cork it was. And it made me very happy.’

Graham Norton, tells Australian TV he chose Bantry for his wedding so his mother Rhoda Walker could attend.

‘You can get a massive rise in libido – apparently!’

Sally Phillips, the Bridget Jones and I’m Alan Partridge actress, pictured, suggests that the menopause can also be ‘sexy’.

‘I spent a fair bit of time with Coolio – he was a misogynist, broke wind a lot; he fancied himself as a cook but my God, we had so many laughs.’ Ulrika Jonsson pays tribute to rapper Coolio who has died aged 59.

‘I’ve made a ton of movies (and four of them are pretty good, I think).’

Tom Hanks gives a jokey critique of his career in an interview with celebrity news website People ahead of the release of his first novel.

‘I wish I could say the same of you.’

Late Harry Potter actor Alan Rickman’s quip to John Major – revealed in a new book – after the former British prime minister told him ‘you have given us so much enjoyment’.