Monday, June 8th
Our Eric Lalor was walking around the place like an hysterical, lusty teenager having met and interviewed the great Marco van Basten at the Champions League final in Berlin.
Harry Redknapp joined Twitter and refused to make a fuss about the fact that his old man was a dustman. He’ll make a charming addition to everyone’s favourite shouting machine if this is anything to go by.
How Mario Balotelli’s reputation has nosedived. The Italian, who couldn’t kick snow off a rope for Liverpool last season, was trolled by Cabinteely FC and told not to bother even trying to get a game for Friday’s match against Athlone Town.
Finally, we felt very, very, VERY inadequate after seeing this.
Tuesday, June 9th
While the rest of the desk fled the office like a bunch of flapping schoolgirls, the following happened.
Sublime moves from @PaddyMcKenna as he bravely herds a bee out of the @JOEdotie work pod pic.twitter.com/r5TSGmNY80
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) June 9, 2015
JOE editor Paddy McKenna is no friend to the bee community – but he’s our hero. Swoon, and all the rest.
The fifth series of Game of Thrones comes to its conclusion early next week and we were given a sneak preview of the inevitable carnage.
Newstalk’s Colm Parkinson had a novel concept for the GAA Championship, while Roy Keane and Martin O’Neill had a bit of a fender-bender on the M50. Nobody came out of this looking well, least of all Tommy Martin from TV3.
Would he rear-end Keano?
Wednesday, June 10th
John Giles got the news that he wouldn’t be in the pundit’s chair for Ireland’s clash with Scotland at the weekend, but not from RTÉ Head of Sport Ryle Nugent.
Not sound lads, not sound.
Lionel Messi found out that he’d be standing trial for tax fraud, while Rory McIlroy – who used to be such a nice guy and definitely one of us – gave us a reason to hate him. We Irish love a success story.
Finally, the ideal penis size was revealed. We might just leave this here.
Thursday, June 11th
Hozier is still showing absolutely no signs of turning into a bit of a d**k – here he is being an absolute champ to some J1 students in Chicago.
We had the 25th anniversary of Ireland’s 1-1 draw with England at Italia ’90, and celebrated it by listing everything that was absolutely bloody fantastic about the tournament.
Legendary actor Christopher Lee died at the age of 93 and after more than 250 screen appearances.
There was a suspected case of BSE in County Louth, with an investigation launched quicker than the time it takes McDonald’s to rustle up a Big Mac.
Finally, the JOE lads went out on the beer. What’s seldom is wonderful. And drunken. Very drunken.
Here are Eric Lalor and Paddy McKenna before the dentist chairs were wheeled out.
Friday, June 12th
There were sore, sore heads around the office as our colleagues at Her, SportsJOE and HerFamily repeatedly told us we’d heaped this misery upon ourselves and refused to make us tea. Feckers.
Out in the world, Irvine Welsh starred in this Trainspotting-themed promo for Ireland vs. Scotland, which takes place later this evening, and our lust for life was restored.
(Sorry about that. Couldn’t help oneself.)
The week was full of nostalgia for Italia ’90 and we were sent in 32 hidden beauties from that summer in Italy. Click on the image to see more.
TFI Friday returned to our screens. The first hour was fairly entertaining too, until the charisma-free zone that is Lewis Hamilton appeared and the show turned into one elongated Top Gear audition for Chris Evans.
Finally, Dave Grohl broke his leg at a gig but kept going anyway. He’d need more than JOE’s secret Alka Seltzer stash to get him out of this one.
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