Swapping the hoops and green shirts of Páirc Uí Chaoimh from earlier in the day for uniform black tie in City Hall later that night, it was quite the parade of football luminaries who took to the stage to pay further tribute to Liam Miller at the gala dinner in his honour last Tuesday.

Former Cork City defender Brian Lenihan has revealed that the real reason he retired from football at the age of just 23 was the mental illness which led him to attempt to take his own life last year.

Cork City FC last night paid tribute to legendary fan Noelle Feeney, who died yesterday, by making her a permanent honorary trustee.

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Nadia: Chasing the Dream TV3, 2.45pm

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Tonight's spolier-free guide to the best of the telly.

Here's our guide to the best of tonight's TV.

Liverpool have another chance to chase a place in next season’s Champions League as they begin their UEFA Europa League campaign.

Your spoiler free guide to what's on the box tonight.

Check out our spoiler-free guide to what to watch on TV tonight.

A mixed week at the upper echelons of the bullshit trade. We lost one of the greats. It says much about the business The Ultimate Warrior was involved in that many people took time to be convinced he was really dead and that the announcement wasn’t a stunt.

Porn – What’s the Harm? (BBC3 at 9pm) is a documentary that finds out if it's true that children are being exposed to more pornography than ever before - and what the effects of that might be.

The Demba Ba goal which put Chelsea through to the Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday night might have dominated the back page headlines but on social media it was Trevor Welch’s post-match interview with Jose Mourinho which really took the biscuit.

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

Your guide on what to look out for on the box this evening.

Highlights include Who’s Buying Ireland? and a discussion of pre-nups on Ear To The Ground

Hundreds of people turned out in Togher, Cork City, as world champion walker Robert Heffernan was treated to another, more low-key homecoming last night.

Sting played the Marquee on Leeside last night, but on Sunday, he was an ‘Englishman in West Cork’ and then back up in Cork City for some ‘Murphy’s in a Bottle’.

Sting - yes, that Sting: Roxanne, The Police, tantric sex and stuff - is playing in Cork tonight, and he's been enjoying the craic on Leeside.

Highlights include new RTÉ/BBC thriller, The Fall, and the Eurovision semi-final

SATURDAY

AS Andy Gray often said himself; “It’s what I call one of those indefensible ones — you can’t defend against them.”

MICHAEL FOLEY has won the Boylesports Irish Sports Book of the Year Award for ‘Kings of September’, his account of the 1982 All-Ireland football final in which Offaly foiled Kerry’s bid for a historic five-in-a-row.

IT’S THE END of the world as we know it.

BRIAN KERR this weekend returns to the scene of one of the most traumatic nights in his international management, writes Colm O’Connor.