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4 up now.That 4th goal from Kovalesvkies was class. He was shouldered GAA style in the penalty area that sent him flying, and he got up and still scored a goal. In fairness Panama out of their depth.

Great header by Jaden Umeh to put Ireland 1-0.

Ireland dominating the Panama boys, and could be more than 2-0 up at half time, with Michael Noonan hitting crossbar from a spectacular effort - that said Panama got in a couple of times and need to be careful at the back.

Good to see that RTE (player and RTE2) will broadcast Ireland's U17 World Cup games, starting today against Panama at half 12. Some potential stars of the future on this team so will be interesting to see how they get on.

Not a bad group for the women's world cup qualifiers:

France
Netherlands
Poland
Ireland

Are well capable of leaping Poland and potentially the Dutch and getting an easier playoff route. They wouldn't want to read too much into beating France in Pairc Ui Chaoimh last time out. That was a B French team. They beat England in the Euros and I believe went unbeaten. But still one of the best first sead options.

A hammering in the end. Andy will have to reevaluate his Leinster team.

2 tries from All-Blacks have turned the game.

Bit of a dirty diesel game combined with some awful officiating. Barrett calling the mark after he carried the ball a mile out of touch showed what a joke the whole setup is.

That was a ridiculous call. He ran into FFS on a forward pass.

Has this Harvard prof lost the run of himself or possible that 3I/Atlas is not a comet but alien tech. Says there's 9 anomalies that potentially make it not a comet. I suppose we'll know closer to Christmas.

https://avi-loeb.medium.com/afterthoughts-on-the-non-gravitational-acceleration-of-3i-atlas-at-perihelion-97c609e24fc6

Different for a comedy set in Ireland, but have enjoyed 1st two episodes of Leonard and Hungry Paul on BBC2 (despite the Julia Roberts narration). Amazing to see Derry Girls actors show up so many places these days, launched a good few careers.

Speaking of Derry Girls, Louisa Harland putting in a fine performance in The Walsh Sisters, even though the series itself I'd give at most a 6/10. Has its moments tho.

Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Whip It - Devo
Da Da Da - Trio
Crash - Primitives
Blue Monday - New Order
Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil

Somehow forgot Golden Brown - The Stranglers (never knew it was about heroin either)

Was looking curtains at half-time and Irish teams rarely get a good result in Belgium, but much more dominant second half but had to sweet it out. That's a good scalp and should have brought a bigger lead into the leg.

Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Whip It - Devo
Da Da Da - Trio
Crash - Primitives
Blue Monday - New Order
Ball and Chain - Social Distortion
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
The Dead Heart - Midnight Oil

Sunday morning coming down

Such a great song. I'd have picked but saving should songwriter Kris Kristofferson make Austin's list.

Stormont clearly a mess but not much worse than the Dáil. Some examples:

Cost of the Dáil bike shelter.

Cost of new Children's Hospital - biggest scandal ever I'd say and still no closer to getting built.

It's close to completion and the children's hospital in Belfast delayed since 2013 will be more expensive per room. The difference is the 26 has the revenue raising abilities, and no doubt money gets squandered. But at least the country will have a top class facility opened within a year. The inertia of Stormont means the Belfast one is waiting 12 years to break ground. With one firm already pulling out this year, watch costs balloon even further. At least Nesbitt got to visit an actual hospital being built when he inspected the Dublin one.