Every week, we give away a voucher worth TWENTY FIVE Euro to spend at any of the many Golden Discs stores nationawide.

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

This week’s theme: Elvis Costello

What song from the the vast and varied Declan McManus canon never fails to ‘Attract’ your attention?

To enter, please complete this sentence.

‘The stand out track from the Elvis Costello songbook would have to be____________________owing to its________________________’

Lines MUST close at 9.15pm MIDNIGHT

No ‘She‘, sorry.

Golden Discs

Thanks Bertie

This afternoon.

River Liffey at Dublin city centre

Ahead of tomorrow’s National Housing Demonstration, Take Back The City deliver a banner drop from the Hapenny Bridge claiming ‘Housing Cuts Make Women Bleed’.

Earlier: ‘An Impossible Place To Live’

Sam Boal/RollingNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAZPiYUGqMU

To bouldly go…

Doug writes:

Readers may care to have a goo at this new mobile game Star Trek Fleet Command, which has just launched worldwide and is made right here in Dublin by Digit Game Studios.

It’s a nifty resource management/strategy/MMORPG set in the Star Trek universe (specifically, JJ Abrams’ latter-day iteration).

Build up your starbase, get better ships, crew them up and head out into the galaxy to complete missions, play out the storyline or just get in scraps with other players.

I Have been playing since the ‘soft launch’ a few weeks ago and it really is one of the richest, most engaging mobile games I’ve come across.

It’s free to play with in-app purchases; microtransactions aren’t forced on you though – unless you want to speed up your progress.

Anyway, it’s tons of fun, highly recommend it. This not an ad.

Star Trek Fleet Command

Oh.

Public Banking Alliance write:

We pay over €170k (>60%) on top of the principle to the commercial banks for a mortgage on an ‘average’ price house. Compare that to €49k in Germany.

Germany has 70% Community/Public Banking.  The Commercial Banks in Germany have only 12.5% of the market…

Kevin Byrne writes:

Irish banks charge customers the highest interest rates in Europe. ECB figures show that Irish banks are up to three times more profitable than Eurozone counterparts.

Average interest rate here is 3.2% compared to eurozone average of 1.9%. Businesses charged 5.1% compared to 2.3% Even after paying 42% of Europes banking crisis.

Good times.

Public Banking Alliance


Behold: the 2020 Porsche 911 Coupe – the eighth generation of the model first introduced in 1963.

Wider and the front, slimmer in the midsection and with the iconic beak of its earliest ancestor, the upcoming iteration has a 450bhp, turbocharged flat-six powerplant with a host of technological gizmology including road moisture sensors, thermal imaging cameras and ‘swarm intelligence’ navigation.

Yours for about €170,000.

uncrate

Broadsheet.ie