Highway to LA presents new challenges and chances for Olympics and Team Ireland

Huge progress has been made. The homecomings in Dublin and around the country were a joy to behold but this country is capable of more again. So much more.

Team Ireland members, from left, Rhys McClenaghan, Daire Lynch, Philip Doyle Mona McSharry, Daniel Wiffen and Fintan McCarthy are welcomed by supporters on O'Connell Street. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Los Angeles was very different when Laurel and Hardy shot scenes for the 1928 movie Two Tars on the streets around Culver City and Santa Monica in 1928.

The roads were little more than dirt tracks, but the scenes of traffic congestion and road rage they filmed became a Hollywood staple through the next hundred years.