Shoppers who thought it was safe to go back into the city centre after the January sale scrums were caught out by a line of scrimmage of a different kind, as Cork’s busiest thoroughfare hosted a flashmob American Football match.

The eagerly anticipated Superbowl will be watched all over the country by Gridiron enthusiasts on February 1st and nowhere more enthusiastically than in the city of Cork it appears.

A group of pub workers are swapping life behind the bar for life on the road when they try to break the world record for the fastest land journey to Cape Town.