‘Storm Daniel’ as Wiffen writes himself into history

STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS: Ireland’s Daniel Wiffen becomes emotional as the Irish national anthem is played. Pic: ©INPHO/James Crombie

Tisdall, Delany, Taylor, O’Donovan. Daniel Wiffen is among them now.

Names that move a nation. Members of an elite among the elite. Still only 23 years of age, what he just did on Tuesday night will overgrow the hedging of his own days and into the neighbouring gardens of years and generations to come.