Sarah Keane’s appointment a step in the right direction

The election of Sarah Keane as Olympic Council of Ireland President last week — not the foregone conclusion one might have thought, despite her qualifications — shone like a light in the darkness of recent developments in sports.

Or sports governance to be exact.

Yours truly, along with several others, was invited via social media — ‘called out’, is the kids term — to describe Keane’s election as ‘Mother of three replaces father of four’, and the person issuing that invitation was Dr Katie Liston of the University of Ulster, so I felt a phone call was in order.