On today’s End of the Day we get to see the human side of Adolf Hitler, Ben Johnson tries to pull a fast one and Irish football fans get screwed over. Again.
Pic of the Day C’mon now boys, take it handy.
Pakistani Police carry an injured man from a mosque in the area of Garhi Shahu on May 28, 2010 in Lahore, Pakistan. Gunmen attacked two mosques in the Pakistani city of Lahore today. The gunmen took hostages from among people gathered for Friday prayers in at least one building. Over 30 people were killed in the attack, responsibility of which has been claimed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Photo: Nadeem Ijaz/Getty Images.
Tonight’s Telly
Pick of the night: Uncle Hitler, RTÉ Two, 8.00pm
This cracking documentary introduces us to the strange descendants, friends and employees of everyone’s favourate warmongering megalomaniac, Adolf Hitler. We get to see the human side of this frequently misunderstood character. Somewhat satisfyingly, the family is as dysfunctional as ever with betrayal, murder, conspiracy, physical deformity, incestuous love and robbery par for the course among his descendents.
More TV: The Men Who Stare at Goats, Sky Box Office
George Clooney takes up the role of Lyn Cassady, a supposed former US Army intelligence officer. His ‘First Earth Battalion’ apparently concerned itself with harnessing paranormal powers for the good of their country. Ewan McGregor appears as a journalist who stumbles upon the battalion’s curious behaviour.
Sporting highlight: Ireland v Algeria (Sky Sports 1, 7.30pm – kick-off at 7.45pm)
What are the poor, starved sports fans of Ireland supposed to do with themselves? Their heroes – Keano, Duffer and, er, Paul Green – are in action in a vital pre-World Cup warm-up game and how can they watch it? Only by paying through the nose to Sky Sports, that’s how. For those of us without the readies to cough up the monthly subscription, it means waiting up until the Late, Late is nearly over (International Soccer: RTE Two, 11.25pm) to see what Billo and his ‘B’ team of Ronnie Whelan and Trevor Steven made of it all. How will we keep ourselves from checking Aertel? How will we avoid the updates on the wireless? How will we stay awake?
Live Like JOE…Don’t believe the hype
Ben Johnson reckons that the whole getting caught-using-performance-enhancers-prior-to-the-Seoul-Olympics thing was all down to an act of ‘sabotage’. Get up out of it. You can’t call foul when you’ve already admitted to knowingly taking the steroids. The clown even admitted it again during the press conference in which he made his ropey allegations.
So what’s he at then? Well, the key thing to note is that Johnson is about to release a book. Well Ben, we’re wide to your game pal!
Mood Swingometer
Today JOE is feeling… rejuvenated.
It’s Friday afternoon so the weekend is almost upon us. With a sideways sneer in the direction of the lads rostered to work another sun-splashed Saturday and Sunday, we think we’ll skip out of the office early today – who cares?
As soon as we place the last tick on The Whiteboard Which Rules Lives, we’ll rush home, pull last week’s Bermudas out of the press, shake them into some sort of shape and arse around the back garden with a can of Tuborg, a pair of tongs and some lighter fuel for the barbeque. Tomorrow it’ll be more of the same.  Sunday as well. Then on Monday we can burn off and build up by getting stuck into Mike McGurn’s intermediate training regime. That reminds me. Need to pick up some eggs.
