Kieran Shannon: It’s time Irish basketball’s unsung heroes get funding they deserve

Because of what was happening out in Tallaght over the weekend, this piece was always likely to be about basketball, and then a certain event in California last Sunday confirmed it could be about nothing else.

The past few days there have been essentially two groups of people on the planet — those emotionally struggling to process the loss of Kobe Bean Bryant and his daughter Gianna, and those struggling to get their head around why so many people have been grieving Bryant.