‘The importance of the simple things in life has really hit home’

Walking, digging holes, painting, getting stuck into a stock of 48,000 ebooks! Our writers explore how our 70-plus senior sporting stars are coping with the need to cocoon during the Covid-19 crisis.

Alfie Hale, 80, is best remembered for his spell with the great Waterford side of the late ‘60s-early ‘70s but he played and managed for a string of clubs in Ireland as well as Wales and England. He also won 14 caps for the Republic of Ireland.