Kieran Shannon: Get in there - The joys of getting back to normality

Ireland’s Nhat Nguyen competing during the Tokyo Olympics this summer. After seeing Nguyen at the Olympics, there’ll be kids this week picking up a badminton racket for the first time, and 60-year-olds picking up a badminton racket for the first time in the longest time, writes our columnist. Picture: AP Photo/Dita Alangkara

It didn’t trigger any mass national celebration. It didn’t lead any sports bulletins or even feature in most of them. Chances are a fair chunk of the Irish public might were oblivious to it. But that doesn’t change a simple fact. Yesterday was a landmark in Irish sport.

Indoor sport could finally return indoors.