Time to quickly turn tears to cheers at Donnybrook
Already we’ve all moved on.
For a moment there on Sunday night, a good share of the nation, or at least Twitter, was up in arms that just after the Irish hockey team thought they had qualified for next year’s Olympics — dashing to embrace one another as Canadian players simultaneously approached the match officials, more in hope than anger — anArgentinian umpire called Diego Barbas made the egregious decision to award Canada a penalty stroke.
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