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In a wide-ranging interview, Joe Canning discusses the groin injury that derailed his season, playing golf with Shane Lowry and the rise of tactics in hurling.
TALK TO JOE – when ever you bloody well want to! As part of our weekly Tubesday feature we scour the net to bring you the best of Youtube, but this week we’ve found something a little different and believe it definitely deserves your attention.
Bob Byrne, an Irish born writer and publisher has just launched his new site Clam Nuts and he’s added two new games. One is a Joe Duffy soundboard, giving you the opportunity to put words in Joe Duffy’s mouth. You can surprise you’re Granny on her birthday with some shocking phrases from her favourite RTE star. Perhaps best not to give her a heart-attack though.
We were going to suggest a few word combinations, but frankly they were a tad too filthy for this site, so we’ll leave them up to your imagination. Needless to say there is endless fun here.
Also worth a look is the Ass or Egg game – self explanatory really, but good fun! Some pictures however, may not be ‘office friendly’.
THE DÁIL IS set to debate legislation aimed at freezing rents for the next three years today.
The bill, tabled by Sinn Féin and due to be voted on next Thursday, comes after Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy narrowly survived a no-confidence motion last week.
Rent Pressure Zone (RPZ) laws were first introduced by the government in December 2016 and are aimed at tackling spiralling rents by capping annual rent rises by 4% in certain areas.
Last month, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said “it is now time for the government to consider a rent freeze and compose a rent freeze, given the exorbitant levels of rent that people are facing.”
So, today we’re asking: Would you support a three-year rent freeze in Ireland?