The agony and the ecstasy for Annalise Murphy and Michael Conlan in Rio

Comedian Colm O’Regan’s tweet summed up Rio for many Irish viewers yesterday: “Annalise Murphy doing well so far, although according to one of the boxing judges, she’s fallen off her horse.”

It was that kind of day — while Annalise calmly busied herself winning our first Olympic sailing medal in 36 years, our last remaining boxer, Michael Conlan, was so incensed by his controversial defeat that, by last night, he was sending shots across the bow to Vladimir Putin.

“Hey Vlad @PutinRE-Eng How much did they charge you bro?” he tweeted to Putin’s official Twitter channel.