Heroics of Ireland Women's rugby team inspires next generation

Big tournaments can be noisy, rude affairs. Whether it’s an Olympic Games, a Fifa World Cup or a Ryder Cup, these operations tend to pitch tent, plaster posters, and plant flags all over town. 

They make a great, big hullabaloo about who they are and how their presence is going to make life so much more exciting for the lucky locals.

Traffic is expected to stop or, in the case of the Olympics, give over one lane exclusively for the easy transport of athletes and those committee bigwigs in flashy sponsored motors.