Listen to the blue-shirts: time for regime change

THERE they stood, arrayed in a defensive line as the crowd wended its way towards Lansdowne Road.

Well-heeled, immaculately gelled young men in labelled attire, they stood among us dispensing leaflets and calling out to the crowd.

"Lions itineraries, get your Lions itineraries," they shouted in strong South Dublin accents which clashed sharply with the earthier calls of "hats and scarves."