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This afternoon.
Coole, County Westmeath.
Thanks Fiona McGinty
Meanwhile…
Tonight.
Annagassan, Ballynagassan, County Louth.
Thanks Collywobble
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This morning, with a TWENTY FIVE EURO Golden Discs voucher on offer, we asked you: Choose a song that sums up the oncoming month of trembling possibilities, September?
You answered in your tens.
But there could only be one winner.
‘Notahipster‘ wins the voucher for selecting It Might As Well Rain Until September because:
“It was written by the greatest husband and wife songwriting team of all time, the great Carole King, and the late, great Gerry Goffin. A beautiful song of lost love. Sniff.”
Fight!
Runners up:
Ivan: “For the month that will soon be in it, please play September Gurls by Big Star because no matter what month it is, life is always better with a bit of janglepop.”
Milfred St Meadowlark: “For the month that will soon be in it please play Forever Autumn by Jeff Wayne because it’s War of the Worlds and it’s a downright excellent song, along with the rest of the album. In fact, play it all. The original, not that new-fangled muck. Thank you…”
Andyourpointiswhatexactly: “September Morn by Neil Diamond…Because my grandfather, Mum and now I all love(d) him.”
Harry Molloy: “For the month that’s about to be in in it please play Maggie May by Rod Stewart because it’s all about going back to school and leaving the older woman who took advantage of you over the summer. Story of my life.”
Damian: ‘For the month that will soon be in it, please play Hot for Teacher by Van Halen because starting secondary school. I thought the at least one of my teachers was going to be like the one in this video. I couldn’t have been more wrong, they were all male.”
Bobaldinho: “For the month that will soon be in it, please play George Harrison’s “Here Comes The Sun” because I live in Australia and its starting to warm up again.”
Thanks all
Earlier: September Songs
NOTICE: After two lovely years with the ‘sheet Mark Ryall has handed over the bunch of keys of the Broadsheet Trailer Park to Bertie Blenkinsop, a name familiar to regular readers. This is Bertie’s first trailer.
What You may need to know
1. The Watchman is a one-off drama starring the ever-brilliant Stephen Graham as a CCTV operator who intervenes when the police fail to tackle a gang of drug dealers.
2. Graham was superb as the racist skinhead Combo in 2006’s This is England (the movie with the greatest soundtrack ever imho ), and stole every scene he appeared in with a fantastic mix of raw menace and disturbed vulnerability. If you remember the scene where Shaun is buying his first pair of Docs, the shoe shop assistant is Stephen Graham’s wife, trivia fans.
3. Graham also chewed up the scenery as Al Capone in the excellent and sorely missed (by me at least) Boardwalk Empire. (Alec Baldwin was originally considered for the role of Nucky Thompson. What a time to be alive!).
5. Incidentally, it is OBLIGATORY to mention the fact that Al Capone was imprisoned for failing to pay his taxes in EVERY article about the Criminal Assets Bureau.
Bertie’s Verdict: Looks like a great vehicle for Graham to do what he does best ie. anger, violence and longing.
Release date: Wednesday, August 24, Channel 4 at 9pm
‘sup?
This afternoon.
Piajade tweetz:
No one can touch it because it’s hanging over the [potentially current-bearing] wire….
WRONG: Crafty shrimp-lover JOGS like no one’s watching.
CORRECT: Classic Walking and heel action by Heffo (right)
This afternoon.
Men’s 50km walk eventual silver winner (cruelly beating Ireland’s Rob Heffernan into sixth).
Daniel McMahon fumes:
I thought this was a walking race, doesn’t one foot need to be on the ground?]
Anyone?
Meanwhile….
Race walker Evan Dunfee collected Canada’s 12th bronze medal at the Rio Olympics and 19th overall following a protest in the men’s 50-kilometre race Friday morning.
In the final two kilometres, Dunfee lost stride after Hirooki Arai bumped him during a collision and the Japanese athlete went on to cross the finish line third in a time of three hours 41 minutes 24 seconds, 14 one-hundredths of a second ahead of Dunfee…
Evan Dunfee awarded bronze after protest in 50km race walk (CBC)
Images by Trevor Williams and Jonathan Galione of Tdub Photo. The light is emanated by a species of bioluminescent shrimp called Vargula Hildendofii or ‘sea fireflies’ native to the coast of Okayama in Japan.
Williams and Galione lured them into jars baited with raw bacon, positioned them on rocks then photographed them as they returned (safely) to the water
From top: Intercom outside the offices of Pro 10 Sports Management in a building it shares with other companies on Main Street in Lucan, Dublin; Eamon Dunphy
Because junkets.
Earlier today.
Broadcaster Eamon Dunphy, Daniel McConnell, political editor of The Irish Examiner, and Catherine O’Halloran, political correspondent of the Irish Daily Star, spoke to Keelin Shanley during the Today with Sean O’Rourke’s Gathering slot.
During their discussion, they talked about the Rio tickets investigation.
Further to reports this week that Pro 10, which was formed in May of last year, was the only company to apply for the Olympic Council of Ireland contract for selling Rio Olympic tickets, and received it five months later…
And that the Brazilian authorities have issued arrest warrants for Pro 10’s three directors Michael Glynn, Eamonn Collins and Ken Murray…
And that the OCI has received €1.7million in public funds in the past four years…
Eamon Dunphy: “I think journalism here has a question to answer, Daniel: Why wasn’t Pro 10, for example, this shadow, apparently, the shadow company – whose directors are football agents, why weren’t they investigated by Irish journalists?”
Daniel McConnell: “Eamon, I’m a political reporter, so..”
Dunphy: “No, but…”
McConnell: “…When this, when this story broke… but I would agree with you. One question I think has to be answered is: How did they get the licence?”
Dunphy: “Yes. Did they get the licence before, did they get the licence from the Olympic Council of Ireland before the company was incorporated?”
McConnell: “Yeah.”
Keelin Shanley: “And was there an open tender process?…there’s a lot in that..”
Listen back in full here
Previously: Calling It
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