Colin Sheridan: From the sublime to ridiculous and back again

Yes, it was a week that swung from the sublime to the absolute ridiculous and back again, from excellence on the track, to the undignified hoisting of councillors in count centres

Irish athletes Sophie Becker with her silver medal and Sharlene Mawdsley with her gold and silver medals, after their return home from the European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

“Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry;” — Jamaica Kincaid, Girl (1978)

“Our women are only breeding 1.5 or 1.6 children. That’s shocking for an Irish woman. We’ve great women and we want them breeding,” — Newly elected Kildare county councillor, Tom McDonnell (2024)