Even in death, sport proves a true celebration of life

For a good four days there, from Saturday morning through to Wednesday, the Facebook feed went unfed and unchecked, Twitter managed to survive without @Rackob and the internet lost a good few hundred page hits.

Even the mobile got left behind on the bedroom dresser for half a day.

The one newspaper bought, Monday’s Irish Examiner, lay unopened and pristine in a forgotten corner and the only person interested in anything the TV had to say was my two-year-old girl who watched her usual quota of Peppa Pig oblivious to the turbulence around her.