Irish basketball mourns the loss of Annette Forde

As events, and my 12-year-old girl would have it, I’ve just spent back-to-back Saturdays in the Parochial Hall on Cork city’s northside.

Same as I used 20 years and some ago when Blarney and Tralee were in their pomp, ruling the boards of women’s basketball like James Weldon’s UL Huskies are now.

Only better. Well better. That’s not my opinion, that’s Weldon’s, who frequently fell into training with the girls as an early arriver for men’s training in Killarney.