A damning indictment of Trap’s tired approach

IT WAS coming up to half-time last night when the thought first struck that it had been some pig of a week for sport in this country.

Ireland-England in the rugby, Dublin-Donegal in the Gaelic football — a term we’ll use loosely — the continued if not unexpected absence of any medals from the athletics in Daegu, our tennis players’ health issues at Flushing Meadows. And then this.

Not for the first time, a nation turns to hurling to lift it’s spirits.