Cricket clubs play the first shots in team sports’ return to training

Men’s senior head coach Graham Ford stands at a bowling machine at Cricket Ireland’s return to training at the Sport Ireland Campus last week. Picture: Tommy Dickson

Slowly but surely, the Phoenix Park is returning to a variation on normal.

Michael D Higgins was spotted taking in an impromptu concert by members of the National Symphony Orchestra from the Áras garden at the start of the month, Dublin Zoo reopened its doors the next day and, while traffic is again clogging up its arteries, the sound of bat on ball is going some way to countering that particular noise pollution.