What next? Let our homecoming Paralympic heroes savour the here and now

This wasn’t the time for looking forward, or back.

Paris Paralympic Games Medalists Róisín Ní Ríain, Linda Kelly, Katie-George Dunlevy, Orla Comerford and Eve McCrystal. Pic: ©INPHO/James Crombie

Homecomings are actually neutral ground. A Paralympics or an Olympics are fields fertile for debate. Performances, funding, structures and a whole host of other variables are all fair game for examination under the most powerful of microscopes.

If that focus dims with every closing ceremony then it doesn’t disappear in the weeks and months that follow. Reviews get published, State money gets distributed and so the noise, the constant hum of topics, goes on year on year.