Simply BeFrom left: Simply Be’s 2014 cover girl, Cora O’Connor and runners up Roisin Jackman and Leesa Dunne

Online plus size catalogue Simplybe.ie and TV3’s Xpose are searching for Ireland’s Curviest Woman to become the face of Simply Be 2015

If you are size 12 – 32 and can do that sideways stand (above) wearing wedges click HERE.

Pic: Jason Clarke

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Thursday May 29th – The War On Drugs @ Vicar Street, Dublin (€20)

Nialler9 writes:

“The word of mouth surrounding the third album Lost In The Dream from the Philadelphia indie-rockers has already pushed this gig from moved from Button Factory to [the larger] Vicar Street. The album has been compared to Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Chris Rea.”

Nialler9’s Gig Guide May 27-June2 (Nialler9)

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[Joan Burton, deputy leader of the Labour Party and Eamon Gilmore, former leader]

“They knew very well that they were destroying the Labour Party and with it the honourable social democratic tradition it represented. They decided to do it anyway.”

“…It has taken just three years for Sinn Féin to turn the logic of what Labour did in 2011 into stark electoral numbers. They are quite staggering: in 2011, Labour’s vote was twice Sinn Féin’s. In 2014, Sinn Féin’s was nearly three times Labour’s…”

From tragedy to farce: Labour’s big mistakes in 1918 and 2011 (Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times)

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