Michael Power

On this day in 1999... 🎙️ "Beckham... into Sheringham... AND SOLSKJÆR HAS WON IT!"

Israel’s Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir ATTACKS A FEMALE ACTIVIST and says: “WELCOME TO HELL. The summer camp is over.” Activists from the GLOBAL SUMOOD FLOTILLA are being ZIP-TIED and ABUSED while being forced to listen to ISRAEL’s national anthem.

RTE’s EUROVISION BOYCOTT BUSTING Just in case RTE doesn’t tell you below is the running order of Saturday nights 70th Eurovision. Oops, nearly forgot, RTE has a correspondent & camera crew hanging around outside the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna hosting the event in search of anti Israel protesters who apparently are hard to find! RTE’s solution to RTE’s cancel culture & self imposed boycott? Comic boycott busting daily reports of Vienna’s weather & expressions of disappointment at protesters absence while excluding song contest actuality until today’s dramatic boycott busting ( Friday) edition of Morning Ireland. Having yet again reminded us of RTE’s boycott, Morning Ireland broadcast extracts from the entries of Finland, Greece, Cyprus & Bulgaria as possible winners. Even managed to reference a certain loser-the UK entry but, of course, the Israel entry and singer not played or referenced beyond implicit criticism of Israels participation. That came after RTE’s Director General, Kevin Bakhurst, did his best impression of a Hamas spokesman in a preceding interview. Bakhurst’s Gaza related factually inaccurate & selective commentary can be best depicted as public disservice broadcasting , adopting a simplistic Hamas narrative, as he genuflected to RTE’s NUJ & other unions which hold the station in captivity. Seems we now have RTE’s solution to its irrelevant act of cancel culture as it implements its Irish Solution to an Irish Problem - a partial Eurovision boycott that facilitates radio broadcasts but not tv visuals of Eurovision contestants entries, excluding those of the Jewish Israeli contestant. So Third Reich! Of course, RTE knows throughout Ireland Eurovision can be viewed on BBC by those interested without the interruption of advertising. Yet again on Saturday it will be hosted by Graham Norton. In the unlikely event of Israel’s excellent entry winning or even finishing in the top three expect a collective nervous breakdown throughout Montrose from the top down as they figure out how to best report the results of Saturday’s Eurovision final.