Jumping through hoops

IT SEEMED the most natural thing in the world that I should have to look up to the chief executive of the Irish Basketball Association — basketball tends to attract a taller race of people.

Debbie Massey stands 5ft 10ins in her stockinged feet. Tall she certainly is but basketball’s most powerful figure is more anxious to have people look up to her in another sense.

She suggested, in an understated and indirect way, that this day may not be too far distant.