At least with Sheamus, we know where we stand

Sheamus had the belt and an entire nation’s talent for spoofery was finally rewarded.

It was the kind of week my nine-year-old self dreamed about. Make way on the podium Katie Taylor. Step aside Paul Brady, of handballing not island-visiting renown. Stand down Mark McInerney, from the mean lawns of golf croquet. For Ireland has a new world champion to salute.

A Cabra man, whose personal style owes much to Hardy Buck Eddie Durkan — if Eddie was stripped to his best underpants and allowed a Supermarket Sweep at Carroll’s Gift Shop — lifted the WWE World Heavyweight belt in Miami last Sunday. A timely triumph with the Wrestlemania Revenge Tour set to rock up to the O2 next week. Wrestling’s coming home, it’s coming home.