Never mind the golf dinners, it’s time for another Friday music competition.
This week I want to know what’s your favourite underrated song from the 1970s?
Reply below and you could be in with a chance to win a splendid €25 Golden Discs voucher.
Here’s mine.
The winner will be chosen by my caddy.
Please include video links if possible and it would be great if you could say why you like the song.
Lines MUST close at 2am.
Nick says: Good luck!
Last week’s foreign-flavoured winner here.
Taoiseach Micheál Martin says EU Commissioner Phil Hogan should apologise for attending the event in Galway, adding he “should be far more fulsome in his response, and should understand the anger across the country” | Live updates: https://t.co/Vk3CyLuRsl pic.twitter.com/tQgF4rCRV5
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) August 21, 2020
Tonight.
Following the Taoiseach’s call for an apology, a spokesperson for Mr Hogan said he would not have attended had he thought that the event did not comply with Government guidelines.
“The Commissioner apologises for the distress caused by his participation,” said the spokesperson.
Earlier…
EU Trade Commissioner Phil Hogan
1) I attended the Oireachtas Golf Society dinner on Wednesday on the clear understanding that the organisers and the hotel concerned had been assured [by the Irish Hotels’ Federation] that the arrangements put in place would be in compliance with the government’s guidelines.
— Phil Hogan (@PhilHoganEU) August 21, 2020
2) Prior to the event, I had complied fully with the government’s quarantine requirements, having been in Ireland since late July.
— Phil Hogan (@PhilHoganEU) August 21, 2020
Um
Blame the hotel.
Sure why not?
Earlier: Par For The Course
Meanwhile…
We understand Phil Hogan has been spending some of his time, since returning to Ireland, at a property in Co Kildare. For the last two weeks, Kildare residents have been asked not to leave the county for non-essential journeys. The Commissioner has yet to reply to our inquiries.
— Gavan Reilly is actually still on holiday (@gavreilly) August 21, 2020
Ah, Phil.
Earlier: Resigned [Updated]
Sean O’Rourke
2/2 … beyond that, other than to assume whatever was happening would be acceptable from a public health point of view.
I very much regret that lack of thought and interrogation on my part, and I apologise unreservedly for it.— Sean O’Rourke (@OrourkeseanSean) August 21, 2020
This evening.
Former RTÉ broadcaster Seán O’Rourke tweets that he regrets and is sorry for attending the Oireachtas Golf Society’s 50th anniversary dinner at the Station House Hotel, Clifden, Co Galway on Wednesday night.
Earlier: Par For The Course
Tomorrow.
One man.
220km of road.
Callum, Conor, Dan, Paddy, James, O’ Ra, Trevor & Zachary writes:
Our friend Nevil Copeland is cycling from Gorey to…. Gorey tomorrow! He’s trying to raise a tonne of money for the Special Olympics Club Gorey Area and the Gorey Rugby Club.
He’s a teacher preparing for back-to-school amid a pandemic, taking on a charity cycle. We are trying to get the word out to push him to the €9,000 mark (only 900 to go!).
Any chance you could give his hero a shout out? The Broadsheet community are known for their kindness, generosity and good looks… G’wan, you know you want to.
FIGHT!
A short by Stephen McNally in which Dutch author and popular historian Rutger Bregman argues that in order to continue towards a better world, we need big ideas and a more robust vision of the future. To wit:
Revolutionary ideas, that were once dismissed as a utopian fantasy, became reality through people believing there was a better way – but what if our progress is hindered by our own dim view of human nature?’
Green Party Leader Eamon Ryan
This afternoon.
Statement from Green Party Leader on the resignation of Dara Calleary
Earlier: Resigned
This afternoon
Following an often emotional discussion on RTÉ Radio One’s Liveline about Covid hardships – and against the backdrop of the parliamentary golf outing…
SR tweeted:
This (above) is the last time I saw my Da alive. You can just about see his hand in the window. That’s my mom shouting up to him. I remember feeling physically sick at this scene.
Earlier: Resigned
Meanwhile…
2/2 .. a decision and choice those that attended that golf event made cannot be excused.
There was people from every corner of society that really should have know better.
They deserve everything that's coming – and I'm not on a lockdown soap box either myself btw.
Fuck em!!— GᴇɢᴇɴIᴍᴘʀᴇssɪᴠᴇ™ (@GegenImpressive) August 21, 2020
This afternoon.
Mask-wearing elderly in Dublin city centre.
Lockdown Day 148.
Day 54 of Phase Three.
A short mesmerising clip from “Celui Qui Tombe” (He who falls) – an extraordinary dance spectacle created by choreographer Yoann Bourgeois and performed on a spinning platform that allows the dancers to appear to run on the spot and lean at seemingly impossible angles. To wit:
Lowered into a horizontal position, this structure begins to revolve, slowly at first, then faster. Subjected to increasing centrifugal force, the dancers cluster together, their bodies inclining inwards at ever more acute angles. Individuals depart the group and make exploratory sorties, circling the platform as if battling against a great wind.
That was you last night so it was.
MORE: He Who Falls (Celui qui tombe) review – hyper-skilled and remote (Guardian)
