Colin Sheridan: Coverage has us asking are we really up for the match?

The treatment of Algerian boxer Imane Khelif by members of both the press and public on social media was nothing short of disgraceful, and a reminder that these Games have the ability to repulse just as much as inspire.

An Armagh supporter, in the Cusack Stand, celebrates a score during the All-Ireland SFC final between Armagh and Galway. Photo by Ray McManus/Sportsfile

If an extraterrestrial landed in Ireland last Saturday week and strolled down your stairs to find you sitting on the couch sipping a full-bodied beaujolais and watching RTÉ’s All-Ireland final preview programme, Up for the Match, they’d likely have some questions. 

Aliens being aliens, you’d expect them to have done a small bit of research before they loaded up their spaceship and travelled billions of light years across a myriad of solar systems and galaxies, but, even so, nothing could prepare them for Des Cahill and Marty Morrissey doing “light entertainment”. It might be enough to send them packing back across the Milky Way, but curiosity alone would keep them here.