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Temple Bar is no stranger to eye-catching, traffic stopping, grab the camera phone, kind of spectacles.

MARK HUGHES is collecting votes of confidence like another football manager down the road in Manchester racks up major trophies.

CORK Constitution are ideally poised to bridge a 20-year gap when they take on Old Crescent in the final of the ODM Munster Senior Cup at Clifford Park on Sunday (kick-off 2pm).

WELL that was a costly one. Cork GAA Board’s decision to remove the right of a manager to pick his own selectors has ensured one thing — it won’t be repeated elsewhere without paralysing consultation with everybody involved.

For the second week our Angry Fans in Ireland’s best football forum want to talk about the return of “King Kev”; then there’s bafflement over why Man United want to play in Saudi Arabia before a segregated crowd; observations on Alex Ferguson celebratory gestures at Reading supporters; the great internal debate about which form of leveraged finance would be best to secure Liverpool’s history continues and an Everton fan starts to get all uppity about their chances on getting to Wembley.

A Polish court issued an arrest warrant today for a Stalinist-era prosecutor now living in Britain who is accused of fabricating evidence against suspects in the notorious show trials of the 1950s.

We’re almost in the dog days of the soccer season but our contributors are still enjoying a good snarl.

Smart Irish chaser Nil Desperandum is set to bypass Wetherby on Saturday and run nearer home instead at Down Royal a week later.