Sport is whatever you want it to be

When you turn right off the Howth Road, coming out from Dublin city and you cross the wooden bridge onto the North Bull Wall, the sheer diversity of the world of sport announces itself.

That the North Bull Wall should exist at all is, in itself, a tale which edges towards the incredible. It seems to be the case that the idea for building the Bull Wall came from William Bligh, captain of the infamous HMS Bounty. The plan was to do something to deepen the shallow water of the bay and to deal with the sandbacks that were so hazardous to the increased trade that was coming into Dublin Port in the 18th century.