Ruth O’Connor catches up with Ireland’s most famous tailor, Louis Copeland, when he visits Cork to survey progress on the new Louis Copeland & Sons shop, which opens this month.

He's tailored for movie stars, sports stars and presidents - now he's measuring up a new Cork store for fit-out.

The venue is unfamiliar, some of the faces new and the job descriptions changed, but Anthony Foley has demanded some timeworn rugby essentials from his Munster players against London Irish this evening in Waterford (7.30pm).

Desert Air, a ready winner of last weekend’s Ladbroke Hurdle at Sandown, is among 13 entries from the Martin Pipe stable for the totesport Trophy Hurdle on February 11.