Shane McGrath: In these unprecedented times, hope truly is the best of things

ShaneMcGrath: "There is so much going on in our world right now that many may feel that sport - for me that’s the GAA - isn’t a big deal in the scheme of things but as a man once said , 'To GAA people, the GAA is the scheme of things.'"

“Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone.”

Never more than now have these lyrics been so fitting. The year is 1970. Joni Mitchell pens the above lyrics in her song Big Yellow Taxi.