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THE FIFTH celebrity has been axed from RTE Dancing With The Stars tonight.

Tonight seven couples danced to alongside RTE’s concert orchestra as part of Orchestra Week.

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Judging panel, Brian Redmond, Loraine Barry, Arthur Gourounlian and Karen Byrne were back to give their hard-hitting opinions on tonight’s performances.

Elaine Crowley, Mickey Joe Harte, Joanna Donnelly and Yasmin Seky were the first four celebrities to be eliminated. 

And comedian Gearoid Farrelly was the fifth to leave tonight.

Gearoid and his pro partner Stephen Vincent danced the Charleston to Emeli Sande and The Bryan Ferry Orchestra’s hit song Crazy In Love and managed to get 33 points.

But sadly it wasn’t enough and after their dance off with Kevin Dundon, they were voted out by the judges.

“I screwed up the timing at the start. It just never recovered. And I’m glad, I’m glad I made a total mess of it rather than just being really close. I just get to relax and enjoy Danny. It’s grand, go out with a bang. This has been the most incredible experience.

“It’s been the happiest few months of my life. I’ve loved it. I think it’s important to say the pro dancers are just the most unbelievable people.

“You only see the choreography and you see them dancing with us. But they are literally our therapists. They’re like talking us off a ledge on a Wednesday. They’re your lifeline.

“He is the captain of the show. He is just, he is the best. He’s absolutely the best. We didn’t get a glitterball, I think we were robbed, but it’s fine, you know, sweat makes good cement. Sweat makes good cement and I think we got a good friendship out of it and that’s worth more than a glitterball.”

First up tonight was TikTok star Kayleigh Trappe with Ervinas Merfeldas, dancing the Charleston to Lady Gaga’s hit That’s Entertainment.

The influencer was so emotional after finishing her performance and said she was “relieved”.

The pair got glowing reviews from the judges and received a total score of 32 points.

Next up, Mrs Brown’s Boys Danny O’Carroll and Salome Chachua performed the salsa to All Night Long by Lionel Richie.

And the actor got a great score of 33 points.

Chef Kevin Dundon went next performing the foxtrot to Electric Light Orchestra’s song Livin’ Thing with his pro partner Rebecca Scott.

Kevin was so happy with the judges’ comments and he got 24 points.

Olympian Jack Woolley brought the sass to samba to The Cup of Life by Ricky Martin with his pro partner Alex Vladimirov.

The judges were all completely blown away and gave him 37 points overall.

Miss Universe Ireland Aishah Akorede and Robert Rowinski performed the American smooth to A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton.

Aishah was in tears after the emotional performance and received a total score of 36 points and even got a 10 from Arthur.

Olympian Rhys McClenaghan and Laura Nolan put on a great show with their contemporary ballroom dance to Bittersweet Symphony by The Verve.

Laura was almost in tears as she praised Rhys for being so professional and the pair managed to get an almost-perfect-score of 40.

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ANTHONY JOSHUA and Oleksandr Usyk shared the same stunned reaction after Martin Bakole’s KO.

Joseph Parker left his opponent flattened with a huge right hand in the second round.

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It was a dominant display from the Kiwi but Bakole did not stand a chance given his late sign up.

Parker landed several big blows before finally toppling the 22st7 giant just five minutes and 17 seconds into the contest.

Bakole hit the canvas hard with Joshua and Usyk left stunned by the power on show from Parker.

The pair both screamed as Bakole went down and turned to look at each other, moths agape.

They shared a couple of words after a moment of stunned silence but looked amazed at what they saw from Parker.

Moments before his KO Bakole was able to shake off a big punch from Parker, but he must have felt the effect as the second rocked him.

He wobbled before hitting the deck – there was no chance of him making the count.

Parker, who was meant to fight Daniel Dubois before his withdrawal on medical grounds, could now fancy a fight against Usyk or AJ.

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Dubois also remains a potential opponent according to Frank Warren, though the heavyweight champion could also take on Usyk or Joshua according to his promoter.

Warren said: “I feel the perverse thing out of it is we’ve got more of an option now.

“I’d like to see the rematch with Usyk. That’s an option, if it can be done I’d love that.

“But then we’ve got Joe Parker, we’ve got AJ, who’s got over his injury and he may want to do it now with the fact he’s been ill, who knows?”

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STEPHEN BRADLEY and Tim Clancy both bemoaned the late postponement of Shamrock Rovers clash with Cork City – but acknowledged there was no other option. 

The Hoops clash with City was postponed just 40 minutes before kick-off after torrential rain hit Tallaght that made the pitch unplayable.

It was in doubt for much of the day as the pitch passed inspections at 11am and 4pm, only for the worst of the weather to arrive just after that. 

That led Rovers’ to delay opening the turnstiles, though there were still several thousand in the ground when referee Gavin Colfer was left with no choice. 

Bradley said: “We had that monsoon for about a half hour. And both teams and the ref, everyone agreed it wasn’t playable.

“When you look at the surface water on the pitch, I think it was the right call. To be fair to the ref and the groundsmen, they tried to give it every opportunity to go ahead. 

“Even at the end, we’re having a chat between us all, both managers, the referee, and the league and the question is if we let it go another hour…

“If it gave a chance of the game going ahead, I think we all wanted it – especially with Cork with the travelling fans. 

“It wasn’t going to improve. They gave it every opportunity to get it on, but the groundsmen are telling us where the water goes is full, there is nowhere for it to go.”

Clancy added: “It’s not player safety, it wasn’t playable. It’s not like you could start the game and get it going, the pitch wasn’t playable. 

“The amount of work that goes into this pitch is the reason why the women and Under-21 internationals are here. It’s a phenomenal surface.

“They said they could have another hour working on the pitch but the tanks were already full of surface water from the downpour in the last few days.”

“I feel sorry for our fans. They travel up today and 35 minutes before kick off it’s called off. The fans travelling in a wasted journey is the frustrating part.”

But Clancy, whose side drew their league opener with Galway United last week, dismissed the idea that it was a good time to play Rovers given they went to extra time and penalties against Molde last Thursday. 

For Rovers’ part, they had a strong side selected for the game with eight of the starters against Molde, plus Aaron Greene, and Dan Cleary and Dylan Watts. 

Clancy said: “You could say that, but they went to extra-time in the knockout stage of a European competition.

“So I think it would be a bit disrespectful for myself to say, yeah, this would be a great time to play them. Their team is littered with really talented players. 

“It would have been a great time for us to play them because we are due a game this weekend.

“It’s a difficult place to go, so I’m just happy we are leaving here still unbeaten!”

Meanwhile, FORAS – the Cork City Supporters Trust – has called on the FAI to review its processes that led to the late postponement. 

A statement read: “Hundreds of travelling supporters incurred expense and spent hours travelling to Dublin, having been twice assured the fixture would go ahead.

“FORAS is calling on the League to explain how it issued a notice to supporters at 4pm ‘confirming’ the fixture would go ahead, only to call it off a little over an hour later.

“Met Éireann had forecast heavy downpours and potential thunderstorms for the Dublin region on Sunday. 

“As such, earlier inspections at 11am and 4pm should have taken into account the impact this further forecast rain would have had on a playing surface that has hosted two games since Thursday night.”