Welcome home party turns into holy show

If your name’s not down you’re not coming in.

Those lyrics, made famous by the Klaxons’ song The Bouncer, were the first to spring to mind as the shambles that was Team Ireland’s return from the London Olympics unravelled at Dublin Airport yesterday afternoon.

With the public denied the chance to welcome home those who had donned various green uniforms at the Greatest Show On Earth, the inevitable result was a scramble for the golden tickets that would grant access into the building’s inner sanctum.