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SUMMER LIVING:Scotty the Hotty and Dunkan Disorderly were among the actors – sorry, wrestlers – at the appropriately named Summer Bash in Tallaght, writes BERNICE HARRISON

‘MAYBE WE’LL get one of the blood and sweat-catching seats,” says Harry, aged 12, when a trip to the American Wrestling Rampage (AWR) in the National Basketball Arena is mooted. “You know, the ones that are so near the ring, it’s flying all around you.” And just as I have a vision of myself in the front row, handbag on my lap in one of those see-through plastic rain macs so beloved of generations of Knock pilgrims, he says: “Nah, only joking, the wrestling’s fake. It should be a laugh, though.”