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THERE WAS no doubt about the biggest sensation of the week – Colm Murray’s discovery that in China they use chopsticks. But Drogheda United ran the RTÉ man close.

They even made onto the main RTÉ news bulletin, possibly at the expense of Colm’s exclusive report on how the Chinese construction industry is booming thanks to this crazy idea they had a few years back to build a great big wall.

Domestic football generally gets little air time on the main bulletins, unless it’s to do with a club going out of business or a major sponsor pulling the plug. So Paul Doolin’s men muscling into Eileen Dunne’s script for something they actually did on the field of play was surely a little moment to savour for the faithful.