Donal Lenihan: Andy Farrell must prepare to jump from famine to a feast activity

They say a picture paints a thousand words. That certainly rang true when studying the crestfallen appearance of new Ireland coach Andy Farrell, writes Donal Lenihan.

I have no interest whatsoever in horseracing yet, starved of live sport, I found myself watching the Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday afternoon. Strange times indeed.

The blanket ban on all major sports across the globe has served to highlight the seriousness to the general public of the challenge facing our medical experts and dedicated practitioners more than anything else. In that alone, sport is playing its part. No doubt it will also do so when this pandemic is defeated and normality, or some semblance of it, resumes.