Little cheer for Ireland's Paralympic seven-a-side team at home of football

Some reflection of the road disability sport has still to travel in Brazil was clearly seen in the Deodora Stadium in Rio yesterday.

Ireland were one of the first football teams playing in the opening day of the 2016 Paralympics, a sport that is not just a game to locals but a religion.

Yet even when the home team featured in the opening game of the seven-a-side football tournament, in Ireland’s so-called ‘group of death’, not more than a couple of thousand fans came to see them.