Colin Sheridan: Battling to become Beirut's best hurler

They've swapped the clash of the ash for the swipe of the cedar in hurling's latest enclave.

Harout Bastajian working at his Mount Lebanon studio.

I​t’s funny how, with the world in utter chaos, places and people for which entropy is a way of life, somehow cope better. When the first case of Covid-19 was discovered in Lebanon, the much-maligned government shut the airport. 

One case. Shut it like a mousetrap. The airport was one of the few functional veins pumping much-needed blood into Lebanon’s decimated economy. But, they shut it down. For four whole months. Within a week, the schools were closed.