Adare bid to host 2026 Ryder cup

The Ryder Cup might not immediately offer itself as sports’ best expression of the ideals of liberté, égalité, or fraternité. Like all top-level sports events, its primary objectives are not social, they are commercial.

Despite that, sport and society, as this weekend’s Leinster and Munster adventures will confirm, are often happy bedfellows, one supporting the other.