THERE was once a time when French football was thought to lead the world.

BRIAN Kerr may never have appeared on RTÉ’s The Restaurant, but he prepared a menu high on basic ingredients for last night’s diners in Dublin 4.

THEY SAY there languishes somewhere in the vaults a low-rent Hollywood medieval war epic which would otherwise be forgotten but for a memorable scene at the beginning in which we meet a peasant leaving his village to do battle.