Kieran Shannon: Government is all out of timeouts on indoor sport
PAIN GAME: Tony Bradley of the Chicago Bulls reacts after being hit in the face by Jared Butler of the Utah Jazz after Butler’s effort at the basket at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, at the weekend. The Bulls defeated the Jazz 107-99. Picture: Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
If we’re to make sense of a recent directive from the government — albeit it’s hard to find much sense in it — then about the most dangerous thing anyone under 18 can do in Ireland in these times is play a game of basketball or volleyball.
Last Thursday night, on the same day that Sport Ireland launched its slick Let’s Get Back to Sport video campaign replete with hoops analogies, the basketball community was left reeling with the news that the same agency had effectively declared that underage players would have to remain on the sidelines unless they produced a vaccine passport.
