What's going up and what's going down this week.
GOING UP:
'Model Agent' Monday night intrigue (above), RTÉ2, 10.25pm. When will the back-biting start?
Retro bikesVery now, and the most dignified form of transport. You feel safer, you look like something from a costume drama and they remind people that we have survived previous recessions.
Municipal entertainmentTennis courts booked out, swimming pools busy, libraries a little too lively.
Satellite operaRossini's Cinderella will be beamed to cinemas in Dungarvan, Dundrum and Swords, direct from the Met in New York, Saturday, May 9th.
Funerals onlineWho would have thunk it? Especially helpful for people living far away.
BrooklynColm Toibin's new novel, that is.
Charlotte's WayA B&B in Banagher, Co Offaly. Miss Bronte's bridal home.
Irish film winsIstanbul Film Festival's Special Jury Prize for A Film With Me In It.
GOING DOWN:
Red traffic lightsThey're so over. No one stops for them.
The Irish Film CentreBox office staff are fine. Food, women's toilets and the house white, decidedly not fine.
Sunday bus travel Is it a lottery or is it a limbo? Kind of hard to tell as time ticks by and the Sunday timetable on the bus stop pole is revealed to be a work of fiction.
Make-up smear on your mobile phoneand the whiter shade of pale left on your cheek when you finish the call.
Getting banned from RyanairIt's quite an exclusive club, but stressful, all the same. Heaven help you if you try to contest a surcharge, as happened to a very upstanding person we know this week: "Step away from the desk, Madam, or we'll call the police."