Denis Lehane: My week under the Covid blanket

I half expected at any moment to be hauled away in the back of some cattle truck

Tiger Roll (right) and Delta Work with owner Michael O'Leary at Cheltenham. 'There's no doubt (in my mind at least) if I had been there the extra roar I'd have given would have made all the difference.' Picture: Healy Racing

I went down with Covid recently. I failed the test and was locked away.

Just like the Queen of England, the President of Ireland, and the Taoiseach Micheál Martin when he went to Washington DC. I tested positive. The stopper was pulled.