PROUDLY decked out in green, and set in the tiers of stacked housing rising up above the River Lee in Cork’s Tivoli, is Villa Franca.

IT SPEAKS volumes for Bruce Springsteen’s popularity that his three shows in Ireland this week — Limerick tonight, Cork on Thursday and Belfast on Friday — are all sold out.

Glory days are back in Limerick hurling, so who better to ring in the Treaty City’s GAA celebrations, than The Boss?

It’s not often someone steals the limelight from The Boss, but one six-year-old from Dublin managed just that.