Ronan O'Gara: Some weeks it's clearer that sport is about relationships more than the finished product

These weeks the big questions are probably the most important. What do you stand for? What essentially do you want out of this?

RESPECT: Jockeys observe a minute's silence at Punchestown on Thursday in memory of Michael O'Sullivan (Healy Racing)

I’ve lost four games in a row, but who really gives a fuck? That’s crude, but it’s probably where most of us went to this week.

A lot of us might have set out on Sunday bugged by smaller questions. About fixing a lineout or whatever it is. Then news dropped about Mikey O’Sullivan and instead we ask ourselves why do we do this? Why does it mean so much? Why is sport so powerful when it can end this brutally?