MICHAEL MOYNIHAN: Don’t call off the booze hounds

We are all part of the same hypocrisy, said Michael Corleone in The Godfather (Part Two).

Granted, he was talking about extortion, prostitution and murder, not sport, but some lessons don’t need the relatively confined context of organised crime.

A few months ago your columnist was at the launch of new sports facilities in UCC, a function at which Leo Varadkar was present. The Minister for Tourism, Transport and Sport, Varadkar appears comfortable with sport only when it has ‘tran’ before it, and he didn’t disprove that impression at this particular gig, essaying a gag about Cork and Dublin’s relative levels of GAA success that was either so sophisticated that it was post-humour comedy or a complete misfire.