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IT’S OFFICIAL – THE best Irish album released last year was Before We Forget How To Dream by Derry singer-songwriter SOAK.
The Choice Music Prize is fiercely contested every year, and this year saw heavyweights like Villagers and Roisin Murphy up against newcomers like Girl Band.
It’s no easy task to pick the Choice Prize winner – as a former judge I can tell you that sitting around the table debating who should win is both illuminating, exciting, and pretty damn tough.
The announcement was made tonight at the Choice Music Prize live event, where a number of the nominees performed.
What do you think of the winner? Tell us in the comments.
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Good for them for having the foresight and courage to go ahead with this in the face of Russian threats.
- “Erdogan says he could still slam the door shut if Sweden and Finland don’t follow through on their promises, which include possible extradition agreements.”
Erdogan is up for a difficult election in June next year, so this isn’t going to be resolved any time soon. He sees the extraditions as actual promises, and ignores the fact that in countries with a functional rule of law, unlike in his own, it isn’t governments that decide on extraditions, but the judges.
I’m not expecting the Swedes and Finns to start chucking people under the bus – that isn’t even possible unless they start corrupting their judiciaries. It’s rather more likely that this won’t be settled until next Summer, with Erdogan upping the antics right up to the election, because it plays well to his base.
@Mick Tobin: it was reported in Sweden that Erdogan expects the extradition of over 30 individuals that Turkey regards as serious terrorists.
It was also reported that Sweden agreed to label the PKK and other kurdish groups as terrorist organisations, which of course will make the extradition of said individuals easier.
Sweden also dropped their ban on selling weapons to Turkey.
@Moss Cotter: The PKK is already labeled a terrorist organisation by the EU, and therefore also by Sweden and Finland.
‘Other Kurdish groups’ implies the YPG, the boots on the ground in the fight against IS – I do not see the Swedes and Finns going that far. Moreover, Erdogan also wants Gulenists extradited, which is even less likely to be approved by the courts.
At most there might be an extradition or two of PKK members, but I think it’s more likely that the formal Nato membership will only be ratified after the Turkish election of June 2023.
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