A word of warning that silence is golden
The humour and novelty and inflated hysteria associated with feeling the earth moving beneath our feet quickly gave way to guilty embarrassment that an event whose most dramatic effect here in Montecatini was one colleague’s shaving cream falling off his bathroom shelf, had actually caused death and destruction and wreaked havoc with the lives of people elsewhere in northern Italy.
Not a moment too soon, we in the travelling hack pack were back on our more familiar terra firma and dealing with rather more mundane matters, if that is a word which can properly be described to Kevin Foley’s dropping from Ireland’s Euro 2012 panel. Yes, we all know that the disappointments of sport are put into an altogether different perspective by something like Italy ’s lethal ‘terremoto’, yet it would do a serious disservice to Foley to underplay the considerable emotional impact on his personal and professional life of the sudden termination of his Euro dreams
