Irish cricket set for golden age after Indian summer

You may or may not have heard the news about Cricket Ireland’s rather stunning sponsorship coup earlier this week.

Multi-million euro, 10-year deal? With a gargantuan Indian multi-national conglomerate? Goes by the name of Shapoorji Pallonji? Owned by Irish billionaire Pallonji Mistry? No?

If none of that rings a bell then it may be because, like so many thousands of people right now, events to come in Croke Park this next two weekends have more or less colonised your thoughts. That’s understandable. Heaven knows it wouldn’t be the first time the GAA has managed to steal cricket’s thunder.