THAT his gigs this weekend are his first in Ireland in seven years is a shock to John Harold Arnold Bramwell, the song-writing linchpin of the enigmatic I Am Kloot.

FURTHER evidence that Rugby is going soft? Well, that’s the obvious conclusion when hard-as-nails All Black Carl Hayman was forced to sashay down a catwalk in New Zealand at the behest of the moneymen from adidas.

You just can’t keep firebrand Colin Farrell far from the headlines, no matter how hard you might try.