Still on a football theme (sorry), you may be aware that Chelsea lost the FA Cup final 1-0 to Manchester City yesterday.

No surprise there. City were the favourites, although that didn’t stop Pep Guardiola’s team losing last year’s final to Crystal Palace. Also, Chelsea have a terrible record of late in domestic cup finals, having lost the last seven in which they have appeared.

Celtic play Heart of Midlothian on Saturday in a match that will decide the Scottish Premiership.

Hearts are one point ahead of Celtic so a win or a draw will be enough for the Edinburgh club to win the title. Celtic must win but they have home advantage …

In the wake of the smoking in beer gardens poll, I was interviewed yesterday on Newstalk, Ireland’s ‘favourite independent talk radio station’.

I spoke to presenter Sean Moncrieff for ten or eleven minutes and I rather enjoyed it because it was more like a conversation than an interview.

That didn’t take long, did it?

Less than a week after the closing date for submissions to the consultation on smoke-free public places, the anti-smoking lobby is on manoeuvres to push the government to go even further than the current proposals.

I was in London on Saturday to see the penultimate performance of Jerusalem at the Tower Theatre in Stoke Newington.

Written by Jez Butterworth, the multi award-winning play was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 2009 with Mark Rylance and Mackenzie Crook in the lead roles.

My son recently spent a month working on a dairy farm in Devon.

He’s worked there before and this time he was asked to help during the calving season, which meant long days – and sometimes nights – in the fields.

The closing date for the Government consultation on ‘Smoke-free, heated tobacco-free and vape-free places in England’ is this Friday (May 8).

I know many of you are sceptical about ‘public’ consultations, and I’m with you on that. Nevertheless …

An article about smoking has caused a bit of a stink (no pun intended).

Written by Xochitl Gonzalez, a New York Times best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist, it was published last week by The Cut, an online magazine that is part of New York Magazine.