Aidan Curran

Tina and The Real McCoy – ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’ 9 December 1971 This seems to be the first number one single anywhere for Andrew Lloyd Webber, although Jesus Christ Superstar had topped the US album charts the previous year. (Earlier in 1971, He…

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Tina and The Real McCoy – ‘I Don’t Know How To Love Him’: Jaysus irishnumberones.com/2025/10/06/t...

France Live: New PM Lecornu resigns, far right calls for dissolution of National Assembly French Prime Minister Sébastian Lecornu resigns hours after unveiling a cabinet full of familiar faces and less than a month after being appointed, failing to pull the country out of a political crisi...

Not now, France, we're busy: www.france24.com/en/france/20...

The reveal I want to see is that Jim Gavin's tenant was CMAT.

God, Roxy were fab #BBCFour

Nicolas Sarkozy given five-year prison sentence after Libya trial Former French president found guilty of criminal conspiracy after being accused of pact with Gaddafi regime

I was hoping for the full handcuffed perp-walk but maybe they're saving that for when he rocks up to prison www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

A man wearing a pink bow tie

Call My Bluff repeats (followed by that classical music quiz) are BACK on BBC Four at 9 pm tonight!

West Limerick is spiritually part of north Kerry.

Liverpool's away kit is green in honour of Ireland being the first team to play them after The Beatles split up #BURLIV

If it were a bus to UCD it'd never arrive.

Penalties klaxon! Drogs v. Rovers on RTE2 right now.

Men with their heads in their hands

#ARMIRL

Some men with their heads in their hands

#IRLHUN

The 1991 #TOTP repeat on BBC Four tonight is a great reminder of how rave energised the UK pop charts. And Martika's 'Love... Thy Will Be Done' is great too.

Hurrah for "poptimism" and "poptimist", not least because I kept seeing "Popist" there as "Papist".

'The Sensual World' by Kate Bush

Riccardo Calafiori is up there with Nicolás Tagliafico and Stina Blackstenius as the footballer with the coolest name #Analysis #LivArs

I fear we lucked out with Michael D and the two Marys.

On the other hand, Bertie going for president would be great pratfall entertainment for us all. I'm already getting in cans for the TV debate.

I still can't believe the present-day Van Der Valk reboot didn't reuse the classic theme. Even the modern versions of Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver and Magnum P.I. knew to do that!

YouTube video by Megalong Background Music Loops Endor - Pump It Up 🔴 [1 HOUR LOOP] ✔️

Good news, everyone! There's a one-hour version of 'Pump It Up' www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm6d...

Next year, on 28 October 2026, will be the 300th anniversary of the publication of Gulliver's Travels. Are we doing anything for it?

The biggest-selling Irish novel of all time must surely be Gulliver's Travels.

The children's hospital really is The Front Fell Off: The Movie

The Blue Nile. #notTOTP

I must say, that Port Vale retro jersey is fairly snazzy #PVLCAR

YouTube video by Michael Spicer Modern Columbo

One for my fellow Columbo fans: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIR5...

YouTube video by dexys.org Dexys on Top Of The Pops: "Dance Stance" (Original 1980 Broadcast)

'Dance Stance' by Dexys, the best song ever about Irish literature www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAcy... #Dexys

El Salvador approves indefinite presidential reelection, extends presidential terms El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's party approved constitutional changes in the country's National Assembly that allow indefinite presidential reelection and extend presidential terms to six years.

Kneel before Zod: www.npr.org/2025/07/31/n...

I always thought the "W.C. Handy' bit in 'Walking In Memphis' was about a convenient toilet.

AND the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff tomorrow night too!