Michael Moynihan: War exposing plenty of hypocrisy around sport

One of the fig leaves which has been consigned to the dustbin, if it ever really stood up to much close scrutiny is the old sports and politics not mixing

The Munster team stand for a moments applause in support of the Irish Red Cross appeal to help in the Ukraine Crisis

The savagery in Ukraine shows no signs of abating, so perhaps it’s unseemly to muse on something as inconsequential as the disappearance of a few fig leaves of sporting hypocrisy.

But that seems to be happening as well, and we should discuss it.