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WHAT'S HOTStaff at Croke Park at last week's All Ireland From the teenagers at the turnstiles saying "Enjoy the match" to the man running the disability lift, they made the day a real pleasure – even if you were supporting Tipperary

Karl MarxStrangely enough, Marx fans are claiming that this isn't so much a recession as a revolution of capitalism. Discuss

The Hotel Bel-Air in Los AngelesRe-opening next month after a makeover. Rooms from $565

Corned beefNot the nasty tinned stuff. The real thing, made by McCartney's of Moira, Co Down, won the supreme award at the Great Taste judging in London on Monday night

Blood Stoney RoadDublin's coolest new address. Hard to get out of it. Guess where? Clue: near Horse Fair Road

Battenburg vs BouillabaisseWill we love Masterchefas much as The Great British Bake Off?

Alexander McQueenAll the signs are that his sell-out New York exhibition (pictured) is coming to London's V&A. A must see

The new 68 bus routeStraight from Newcastle via Camden Street to the Screen Cinema

Auctions: for everything from furniture to propertyWith reserve prices a thing of the dim distant past, these days, everything must sell

The return of cosinessThe nights are drawing in and we kind of like it but . . .

WHAT'S NOT

Can we be cosy?Gas hikes set us thinking we'll be cut off before Christmas

Dermot McCarthy's packageCan anyone explain?

Dungarees are on the march . . .Another generation succumbs to the world's ugliest garment

Maths teachers charging €70 an hour for grindsAnd demanding cash

Our abrupt gardaíHas there been a directive from HQ forbidding officers from saying hello, goodbye or even good morning when they address members of the general public?

Road rageMinds are on other things, concentration levels are diminished, roads have become battlefields and other road-users are the enemy

Bags, cars, tea towels and now a children's bookIs there anything safe from Orla Kiely's stamp