From Denilson to House of Cards, there's plenty to choose from in this week's Long Reads.
With less than 100 days to the start of the Euros, Nathan Murphy takes a look through the names that are likely to be on the plane to France. As House of Cards enters its fourth season, we ask what can Netflix be doing better, while there's also a look back at what life was like in Ireland in 1916.
Who’s taking the plane to France? Power ranking the Irish players ahead of Euro 2016
This week marked 100 days to the start of the Euros, and as Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane go through the process of making a list and checking it twice, Off the Ball's Nathan Murphy has done something similar.
However, he'll be checking it more often as we keep the power rankings of the 33 Irish players in line to make the trip to France up to date after each week's action in the Premier League and the Championship.
Over half agree that expanding access to abortion should be priority for next government
Just over half of Irish people agree that expanding access to abortion services should be one of the priorities for the next government.
The poll, released by Amnesty International exclusively to Newstalk and conducted by Red C, examined attitudes of Irish people to abortion in Ireland.
What's in 100 years? Newly-released CSO figures give snapshot of life in 1916
The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is marking the centenary of the 1916 Rising, by releasing and comparing figures from that time to today.
The CSO say they wanted to illustrate what life was like for people living 100 years ago and found a range of statistics - including population, births, marriages, deaths, education, crime, prices, transport and agriculture.
Netflix has changed the way we watch television - but they can do better
With tens of thousands of people deep into a binge-watch of the new season of House of Cards this weekend, it’s hard not to be impressed with the progress Netflix has made in the realm of television.
Netflix did not invent the concept of the binge-watch, as anybody who indulged in a month-long immersion into boxsets of The Wire can attest to. However, they did cut out the middle man - removing the inconvenience of weekly waits for new episodes and making every episode available immediately. It was an ingenious decision that legitimately changed many people’s viewing habits, but could they be doing something more with that (lack of) structure?
When Denilson went from next big star to big money flop
Heading into the 1998 World Cup, Ronaldo was the biggest magnet for attention, but a little way behind was Denilson, as a winger in a country where another wide-man, Garrincha, is revered as a deity alongside Pele and Zico.
In July 1998, Sevillan side Real Betis secured his services for £22 million, which probably seemed like a good investment on future talent. In one sense, he did afford them some longevity as he stuck around at Betis for seven years, but in terms of productivity he did not match the price tag and notched only 13 La Liga goals in all that time. So what happened?
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