Irish Examiner View: Flying green flag will work for a while

By the time the starter calls the field to order for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, just before 3.30pm on Friday, March 13, we may well have downgraded that old conundrum — how many angels can dance on the head of a pin? — to a first-round four-marker.

By the time that portentous date has rolled around, all of the easy options thrown up by Saturday’s election will have been stress-tested almost to destruction.