Liverpool supporters in the Kop (top) and Spurs fans at White Hart Lane (above)

Every Friday, we give YOU a chance to win a Golden Discs voucher worth TWENTY FIVE EUROS.

All we ask from you is a tune we can play at an unspecified time next week.

This week’s theme: The Beautiful Game

Following a week of enormous success by English teams in Europe, what soccer-based song leaves you swaying in the terraces, scarf held jauntily aloft?

To enter, please complete this sentence:

”The greatest-ever football song is………because………….’

Lines MUST close at 5.45pm EXTENDED until Midnight!

Golden Discs

Gulp.

I Was Right Frenzy and Betrayal: The Anatomy of a Political Assassination (Irish Academic Press)

A new book by former Justice Minister Alan Shatter scheduled to be published on May 20.

The table of contents contain the headings:

Plane Sailing

Joined at the Hip

Vulnerabilities, Anomalies and Threats

The Media Frenzy Begins

Confusion Confounded and a Wandering Definitive

GSOC Unchained and Post-Truths

Insomnia, the Pink Panther and Inspector Gadget

Sticky Wickets and Rits Crackers!

Flying Empty Planes, Severed Hips and Rotting Fish

Political Tsunami

GSOC Cooked

The Presumption of Guilt and Chasing Geese!

Cooking Cooke and the Invisible Leak

Along Comes Olly!

A Tangled Web and Armageddon

The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the?

Guilty Until Proven Innocent

The Ides of March

Ticket Charges and Penalty Points

Disgust

‘Real People Love the Shane and Mary Lou Show’

A Failed Prophet and a Ticking Time Bomb

‘Distinguished not Disgusting’

Entering a Parallel Universe

Varadkar’s Source

Garda Recordings Discovered

Oh what a Tangled Web

The Garda Commissioner Retires

Shedding Crocodile Tears

Tapegate, Twin Egos, Leo Lionised and God’s Earth

Fake News Irish-Style and Alternative Facts

The Arrogant and Perfidious Jew

The Guerin Report is Born

A Uniquely Irish Political Coup

Guerin v O’Higgins: The Truth Two Years Too Late

A Rush to Judgement, Legal Guff and Reformers Beware!

Complaints Upheld, Exaggerated, Unfounded and Withdrawn

Betrayal, Conscience, Excoriation and Vindication

Watergate Irish-Style!

The Rule of Law

Outside Looking In

Enda Kenny Resigns

The Resignations of Nóirín O’Sullivan and Frances Fitzgerald

The Disclosures Tribunal Reports

Closure and a Pyrrhic Victory

He seems to be getting over it.

Frenzy and Betrayal: The Anatomy of A Political Assassination (Alan Shatter, Irish Academic Press/Merrion Press)

H/T: Oireachtas Retort

Meanwhile…

Separately…

Enda The Road.

TV3 Virgin Media One’s political correspondent Gavan Reilly‘s book on the nine-day downfall of former Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny, published by Mercier Press.

It can be purchased here  ahead of its official launch by Matt Cooper at Dubray Books on Grafton Street, Dublin 2 on Thursday, May 30.

From top: Table showing the number of candidates (male/female) running for each party in the upcoming local elections; table showing the percentage change of female candidates running for the main political parties between 2009, 2014 and this year

Dr Adrian Kavanagh, a lecturer in the Maynooth University Department of Geography, writes:

Female candidates currently account for 28.3% of the total number of candidates selected/declared (that I have accounted for/listed on my website to date).

Female candidates contesting the 2019 Local Elections (Adrian Kavanagh, Irish Elections: Geography, Facts and Analyses)

Previously: Mickey Fest



Boo.

Hiss.

This afternoon.

The Liberties, Dublin 8

Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy officially opening homeless charity Focus Ireland’s new 31 unit development at John’s Lane West (just Off Thomas Street] which is ‘providing homes for families and individuals in the heart of Dublin city’.

Fight!

Focus Ireland

Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland

Runabay – Dig

This soaring multi-layered widescreen epic is centred around the spoken-word beat poetry of Stephen James Smith.

The eye-catching video cuts between the hustle and bustle of Times Square in Manhattan and the bucolic splendour of Howth Head and Killiney Beach.

They say:

“Dig captures a moment in time, and recounts a typical Irish schooling experience full of mischief, truancy, wonder and adventure.”

‘Dig’ is followed on Friday May 24 by the album ‘Between The Lines’

Nick says: Dig for victory

Runabay

Behold: the Fluid – a top shelf, pedal-assisted electric bike from e-bike manufacturer Fuell.

The aluminium alloy frame contains two rechargeable cells packing 1,008Wh with 100Nm of torque and a 200km range while hub-mounted gears and carbon belt drive (instead of a chain) reduce maintenance.

Yours later this year for just over €2,500.

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Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin and Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald

Sinn Féin will move a Dáil motion next week seeking to stop the National Broadband Plan and to appoint ESB to deliver broadband to rural Ireland.

In a statement, the party’s president Mary Lou McDonald said:

“The National Broadband Plan is flawed and will not deliver what is needed.

“Micheál Martin says he wouldn’t sign this plan but he won’t do anything about it. This is typical Fianna Fáil – words but no action.

“Well, here’s a challenge to Micheál Martin and Fianna Fáil. Sinn Féin will move a private members motion in the Dáil which calls for the appointment of ESB to deliver high speed broadband to every home, farm and business in rural Ireland.

“This would ensure the infrastructure stays in public ownership, it would deliver value for money and, crucially, it would finally deliver high quality broadband for rural communities.

“It is time for Fianna Fáil to put up or shut up. They should support Sinn Féin’s motion.”

Sinn Féin to move Dáil motion to appoint ESB to deliver broadband to rural Ireland (Sinn Féin)

Earlier: Fibre Optics

Rollingnews

Last night.

At the Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe, Co Galway.

A reported 1,200 beef farmers from across Ireland gathered for a Beef Summit which was attended by the Minister for Agriculture and Cork Fine Gael TD Michael Creed (above).

The Irish Farmers Journal is reporting that Mr Creed told those gathered that demand for livestock-based products will be affected by public concerns about climate change, biodiversity, diet and health.

He added:

“I think it is time for the beef sector to fight back on these issues. Denial or retribution will not make the fight effective.

“It has to be about the positive story of Irish beef. That is a story of a very natural way of producing beef, on temperate grasslands punctuated by trees and hedgerows and peatlands. It is also a story about farm families, caring for the land in a way that takes account of Mother Nature.”

Meanwhile, also last night but back in Dublin…

Beef Summit: ‘It is time for the beef sector to fight back’ – Creed (Irish Farmers Journal)

Previously: Meeting Is Murder

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