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Here in Cork, as my colleague Blake Creedon says, jazz is a verb. This weekend sees Leeside host the 31st Jazz Festival.

France’s football manager and bebop enthusiast Raymond Domenech, pictured in customary moustache, is taking some time out from preparations for the upcoming World Cup playoff clash with Ireland to particpate.

Domenech – with his band, Zizou Top – brings his distinctly Gallic take on an ambitious and tempermental Chicago-New Orleans crossover, fusion to the Metropole Hotel on MacCurtain St this very Sunday afternoon.

But word is the supperstitious, barely-competent gaffer will join old friend Don Baker in a surprise appearance at the back of Counihans on Saturday night. Niiice.

Asked if he’d attend, his counterpart, Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni offered a 25-minute explanation in three languages, explaining how classical music is what he has always listened to and he wouldnt be changing now, he doesnt have the team to play jazz, why do you keep asking about jazz, it is not personal and jazz is for the devil.