Irish Examiner View: A good time to reinstate core values - Sport and the pandemic

Locked out, for now: The Government decision to veto gatherings of more than 5,000 until September means that this year’s championships, if they go ahead at all, will be very different to their predecessors. Picture: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

There was, not so long ago, a small, one-van builder in West Cork who offered his clients, especially strangers dreaming of turning a tumbling cottage into a summer nirvana, what he described as his Bantry Guarantee.

Strangely, very few clients asked our Brunel what that entailed but those who did were not impressed. “Everything is fully guaranteed until it breaks,” he promised.