Larry Ryan: Blowing full-time on the summer of perspective

They’re all seeing the big picture now and their own small place in it. It looks like the Skibbereen theory of relativity has given the great and good a healthy dose of perspective

CHILLED ON THE WATER: Paul O’Donovan’s grasp of the bigger picture is one of the features of this Games, where winning is great and all but the human endeavour is more important than the achievement.

It is, as they say, Paul O’Donovan’s world now and we’re all just living in it.

You knew instantly it would be influential, Paul’s idea that the excitement around the lads’ gold medal was largely down to them being “born early in the history of time”.