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goldendiscs

Every week we GIVE AWAY a voucher worth €25 to spend at any of the 13 Golden Discs stores nationwide.

Twenty five gangsters to splash out on vinyl, CD, cassette or any format you desire.

All we ask of YOU is to select a tune that we can play at MIDDAY today.

To enter, just complete this sentence:

‘Today of all days I would like to dedicate___________________to _________________________’

Lines MUST close at 11.30am

Golden Discs

inferno

What you may need to know:

1. Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) races against the clock to foil a deadly plot of mass annihilation.

2. It’s the third dose of “Where’s Wally?” claptrap for Hanks and director Ron Howard.

3. What, no mullet?

4. Ben Foster is better than this. Everyone is better than this.

5. Broadsheet prognosis: Infernope.

Release Date: October 14.

(Mark writes about film and TV at WhyBother.ie)

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Blogger Glenn Fitzpatrick writes:

I finally got around to a second part of my looking at Millennials v ladder pullers. I tried to factor in some of the comments it generated…

To wit:

Our very real concerns about the world in which we will inherit are all too often inadequately expressed for us by our elders. This happens with no great malice but under the adage that they just know better. This is how we end up with greying men closer to retirement than graduation sitting on youth committees.

The airing of Tonight with Vincent Browne (April 26 looked at the state of the Job Bridge Scheme and posed the question; who is benefiting from it?

This is undeniably an issue which largely affects young people.

Taking nothing at all away from the calibre of the speakers on the night, none of them represented a students’ union, a youth organisation or similar body that could appropriately express why Job Bridge needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history – from a youth perspective…..

MORE: Millennials vs. ladder-pullers II (The Young Celts)

Previously: My Generation