Spirits lifted in Bantry – Hitchens would be proud

ANOTHER day, another existential crisis.During the week we were struck down by one of those periodic ‘what’s it all about, eh’ phases, the kind that forces you to evaluate what you’re doing.

Our crises are usually brought on by a viewing of All The President’s Men, but restructuring the television package in the house recently meant Turner Classic Movies went by the wayside, so those agonies of worthiness have subsided more than somewhat.

However, we finally caught up with the memoirs of Christopher Hitchens during the week and realised the value that the great man — commentator, reporter, world-renowned atheist, bon viveur of some stamina and all-round intellectual — places on sport is roughly equivalent to the importance he’d assign to a quick decade of the rosary.