We need to protect sport from unnecessary growth, expansion, and inevitable self-combustion
PROTECT AT ALL COSTS: Team Ireland members, from left, Mona McSharry, Rhys McClenaghan, Daire Lynch and Fintan McCarthy are welcomed home by supporters upon their arrival at Dublin Airport. Picture: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile
Sport, Actually.
Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the sporting world, I think about the arrivals gate at Dublin Airport, and Mona McSharry and Kellie Harrington appearing with their Olympic medals. I think of the Paralympians returning from Paris, a horde of family and fans waiting for them on the other side of the sliding door. I think of Paul O’Donovan and Fintan McCarthy wondering how they’re going to get home to Cork. I think of Eddie Dunbar slipping through unnoticed, his fellow passengers oblivious to the fact he’d just won two stages at the Vuelta a España. I also think of the Palestine ladies football team who came to Dublin to play Bohemians. How happy and proud they must’ve felt at the modest recognition they received as their brothers and sisters continued to be slaughtered back home.
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