Little green cheer for Irish at World Indoor Championships

They stayed in their lanes, didn’t get disqualified, and at an event that threatened to descend into farce at one point, there’s something to be said for that.

Still, no-one watching the World Indoor Championships through a green-tinted lens could have considered it a success for the Irish.

Never before had a championship encountered such draconian officiating, or maybe it’s fairer to call it stringent, but, whatever the case, officials had obviously been studying the rulebook with Olympic levels of dedication.