Enda Coll

There'll be another frenzy close at the time.

But by and large, 40,000 in the bank.

Would it be enough to put bums on teeth?

to a bigger house what sort of a scar is he having that he has a swig of it is the question or not a swig as you can tell I'm not a smoker FIFA boss says chill as World Cup kicks off Ward's Ireland journey Ward's Ireland are on a special journey and GEA are tuned out to the needs of the fans just on that topic we've been discussing Mark Gallagher switched off he says inside on a jam packed weekend of football action the GEA are scoring a massive own goal with their scant TV coverage which we've been discussing

We'll go to the Irish Times next.

This is, I love being part of the group.

I love the boys.

They're my best friends.

This is Aidan Forker in conversation with Gordon Manning ahead of the weekend.

Ciarán Murphy's piece we mentioned a bit earlier on.

We are now entering the high wire part of the season.

Dublin have no fear of Munster ahead of clear clash, says the goalkeeper Eddie Gibbons.

And a good piece inside from, I mentioned the Ken Ehrlich piece already, but also Dave Hannigan, who's based obviously in the U.S.,

and he's writing about not the World Cup but sorry the paper's gotten away from me here Ali's Croke Park fight was a commercial flop can Katie Taylor avoid the same fate just reflections on the 1972 fight I think it was between Muhammad Ali and Al Blue Lewis I've never heard him called Al Lewis before when you hear it's nice to hear Al Blue Lewis you're like who are you talking about anyway they brought him here he did a massive tour the Butty Sue Gru is that a name that rings a bell

There's been some great documentaries made about Buddy Sugru, and I definitely recommend you go and have a look at them.

He's a former Irish promoter.

He was the one responsible for bringing Ali over, had done a deal with the bank manager, Williams and Lynn Bank in London, borrowed 300 grand to make it happen, and to cover that 300 grand, they needed 30,000 people to pay in.

18,725 was the number that...

eventually paid in for the fight and there was a sense that maybe he had over-promoted the thing, that people had too much access to Ali and then just got a bit fatigued with the whole lot.

The poor old bank manager who was dealing with the whole thing suffered a stroke and died on hearing that the takings were not what they should have been.