Colm O'Regan: The Olympics restores your faith in watching things you don’t understand

"Thanks to the Olympics, I’m now eight times more likely to say the word ‘pommel’"

Comedian and Irish Examiner columnist Colm O'Regan pictured in Cork. Picture: Denis Minihane.

Maybe you might be a bit football-jaded after the Euros, and wrung out after the All-Irelands. But the Olympics will always restore your faith in watching things you don’t understand. They’re irresistible.

I know there was a lot of hoopla about the Opening Ceremony Feast Thing. But I definitely didn’t see the Last Supper in it. If you saw the Last Supper there, you’ll see it everywhere you look. If anything, I thought the whole thing was an homage to Galway during Race Week.