A cluster of girls jumped around a uniformed garda. “We were on the telly,” they all shouted together and bounced away, running up to the tape cordoning off the latest gangland murder.

THE lovely Roses of Tralee didn’t even come close to the pampering that went on in Virginia, Co Cavan, yesterday.

TENS of thousands of people fed up with the never-ending miserable summer are already booking their holiday in the sun for next year.