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The Irish government is pressing the case for Cork to host a Euro 2028 game originally earmarked for Belfast.

Deputy premier and Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin said Gaelic games venue Pairc Ui Chaoimh in Cork was being “seriously looked at” as a potential alternative venue.

Mr Martin’s party colleague, minister of state Thomas Byrne, has contacted the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) to ask that both Pairc Ui Chaoimh and the Gaelic Athletic Association’s flagship stadium at Croke Park in Dublin are put “into the mix” when it comes to reallocating the ill-fated Belfast games.

The move comes after the UK government announced on Friday that it would not be providing funding to rebuild Casement Park in Belfast in time for the Euros.

The derelict west Belfast GAA ground had…

It’ll be Euro 2028 before you know it. Why, it only feels like three years since Euro 2020, doesn’t it? Wait… scratch that.

Germany played host at this year’s tournament, and last time around it was held in pan-continental fashion with the teams and fans from around Europe to take in all the action.

French company Scaleway has just launched the “Elastic Metal RV1” bare metal servers which it claims to be the world’s first RISC-V servers available in the cloud with pricing at 0.042 Euros per hour, or 15.99 Euros a month excluding VAT.

Scaleway launched some Arm servers based on Marvell Armada 370/XP quad-core Cortex A9 processor in 2015 before phasing those out a few years ago, and they are now just offering AMD and Intel-based servers and hosted Apple Mac computers based on the M1 Arm chip. But the company has decided to try something new again with the EM-RV1 servers based on Alibaba T-Head TH1520 quad-core RISC-V processor, 16GB RAM, and 128GB eMMC flash and running Debian, Ubuntu, or Alpine.

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