Pay The Ferryman serious respect...

JEZ Butterworth’s, pictured, play The Ferryman took my breath away when I saw it last year in London, so I was delighted to see it pick up the Best New Play prize at the Olivier Awards last weekend. The play, set in Derry in the 1980s, has a huge Irish cast who thoroughly deserve the nightly standing ovations they receive. My only disappointment – shared with my theatre-mad daughter – was that we couldn’t watch the Oliviers, screened by ITV, in this part of the country. At least back in the troubled 1980s we could get all the television channels. AS MANY as 45,000 Irish Facebook users could be entitled to €14,000 compensation each after their personal data was harvested by Cambridge Analytica, an international lawyer has said. Presumably, the social media giant already knows how you’re going to spend it. GREEN Party leader Eamon Ryan has called for an end to the practice of hanging banners in support of the Dublin Gaelic football team from the Ha’penny Bridge. Speaking on Morning Ireland, Ryan, pictured, added that ‘hopefully, they’ll be back in Croke Park this summer’. Given that the Dubs play all their championship games at HQ, hope hardly comes into it. I SEE RTÉ is currently spending its annual Big Week On The Farm again. Excuse me for stating the obvious, but with the ongoing weather difficulties, surely every week is a Big Week On The Farm at the moment? LA Galaxy’s latest stellar signing, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, pictured, on left, says he’d like Sylvester Stallone, on right, to play him in a biopic of his life. I don’t know whether the Swede has been to the movies lately, but somebody really should point out that Stallone, at 71, is just a few months shy of being twice Zlatan’s age. Perhaps the soccer star watched too many repeats of Rocky on the team bus.