Grand National: The nines have it! The nines have it!

Twenty years hence, when the producers of Reeling in the Years are choosing the sounds and sights to represent the stories of 2019 they shouldn’t face too arduous a task.

The sights should definitely include some rare footage of a Mayo football captain lifting silverware at Croke Park and the dominant soundbite will no doubt come from the House of Commons and Speaker John Bercow of the sore throat and stretched patience. The unfortunate man seems to be losing the will to live — refereeing interminable Brexit debates that end with him bellowing: “The noes have it. The noes have it.”