Pic of the Day (above)
Revellers pelt each other with tomatoes during the world’s biggest tomato fight at La Tomatina festival on in Bunol, Spain today. More than 45,000 people from all over the world descended on the small Valencian town to participate in this year’s La Tomatina festival, with the local town hall estimating that over 100 tons of rotten and over-ripe tomatoes were thrown.
Tonight’s Telly
Pick of the night: My New Brain, Channel 4, 9.00pm.
Cutting Edge follows the fortunes of Simon Hales, a 20-year-old who suffered a brain injury after falling 20ft on a night out. After five weeks in a coma, he eventually woke but realised he could not remember anything about the incident. As he returns home to his parents and begins the rehabilitation process, the documentary shows the daily struggles he and his family face on the road to a recovery that even doctors cannot be sure of.
Sporting highlight: Champions League Live, RTE2 from 7.00pm and UTV from 7.30pm.
Tottenham Hotspur v those Young Boys (Kick-off 7.45pm). Coverage of the play-off round second-leg clash at White Hart Lane. Spurs start the match with a 3-2 deficit from the first leg, but they could have been in a far worse position having conceded three goals in the first half hour in Switzerland.
Mood Swingometer
Today JOE has mostly been feeling… eager.
Eager to tell how JOE journalist William Nestor got on playing the new Medal of Honor videogame yesterday. Soon, very soon we will find out how the novice gamer faired with the experts.
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