Putting sport first

LAST Thursday, some of the most powerful men in all of Irish sport met in Leinster House.

Smiling and sharing a joke together were each of chief executives of the three biggest sporting organisations in the land — the FAI’s John Delaney, the GAA’s Paraic Duffy and the IRFU’s Philip Browne — as well as the Special Olympics’ Fergus Murphy.

On the other side of the table, as a reminder that he’s not just the Minister for Transport and Tourism but also Sport, was Leo Varadkar, as well as junior minister Michael Ring and a couple of departmental advisors.