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What sports highlights set the scene for this Super Sunday?
Good morning and welcome. It's Clare Brock in for Brendan today. Now, we are just shy of a record heatwave, but we still are enjoying this gorgeous warm spell, aren't we? And isn't it the perfect day for an All-Ireland final? Well, in the papers today, major retailers pull e-scooters from Irish shops. That's the lead in the Sunday Independent. And a lot of the press coverage today on the laws surrounding e-scooters as pressure really mounts on the government to take action on the rising number of children ending up in ICU as a result of e-scooter injuries. Four years of tax cuts for Middle Ireland. That's the Irish Mail on Sunday headline. Simon Harris revealing some of the budget plans in an interview there and a lot of that across all of the papers today.
The Sunday Times solicitors pay claims queried in legal aid row and lawyers now set for a two-day protest. So we'll have to see where that goes. The Business Post leads with Aer Lingus and the story there that a dogfight for new IAG investment after jobs call. And the UK papers. Well, surprise, surprise, they're all dominated, aren't they, by Andy Burnham as he prepares to enter 10 Downing Street this week. We will be coming back to all of these stories. So as I say, we will be coming back to the newspapers, but we are going to start with sport because it's a serious Super Sunday. The only way to describe it. I'm joined on the line by RTE Sports Des Cahill. Hi, Des.
Hiya, Clare. It's one of the best weekends of sport I remember for a long time. It's kind of like two days of wall-to-wall sport. And I know it's a thing to be frowned on, the couch potato, but for what a weekend, the couch potato.
Go for it. Go for it. Like it is really an embarrassment of riches because the hurling final, I mentioned that, the World Cup final, the golf, you're making your way to Croke Park soon.
Yeah. It started yesterday morning at 8 o'clock. I heard you referring to the Ireland-New Zealand match yesterday morning. That Saturday, 8am. The golf started at 8am and went right through until half-eight last night. Then we had that incredible third place playoff in the World Cup. England beating France 6-4.
What a thriller. Bonkers game, yeah. Did you leave the couch? That's the question.
My daughter warned me once that you'll get a blood clot sitting there for two days. And I said to her, don't worry. I always stand up for the national anthems.
You'll have to wear those special flight socks or something, you know, with weekends like this.
I'm in studio. I'm working on it. I'm in Croke Park today. But after Croke Park, I'm going straight to some guys. There's a bar that's been booked out for a World Cup party. So World Cup final party. So it'll be a good way to finish the weekend's work. But it's so good. But do you know what happened yesterday, Clare, that kind of got lost? There was a world record in athletics in London that was one of the big, big records, the mile record. And the record goes back to 1999. It was held by the great Moroccan Hashim El Garouj. And Josh Kerr, a British runner, broke it yesterday by nearly half a second. It was a phenomenal achievement in front of 60,000. And the athletics kind of got no mention with all the other stuff.
I mean, yeah. Like, isn't that one of the big issues? The fact that everything's happening on one weekend. It's like it's brilliant for sports fans, but it does dilute some of those big events. And that massive record being smashed, as you say, over in London, which would be headline news any other time.
Yeah, and the ladies' football semifinals saw Galway and Kerry get great wins. Again, they were kind of overshadowed. And then there was a really gnarky rugby match last night between England and Argentina. Kind of what you'd expect just a few days after they'd met in the Soccer World Cup semifinal. England just won it. Argentina had a last-minute try disallowed, which would have got them a draw. And the Argentine coach, Philippe Contepome, who played here with Leinster, he complained afterwards about the English celebrations being far too excessive and too loud in the dressing room.
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