So, the country is well and truly fucked. The two Brian's have done their damndest to sink the whole nation below the corrib pipeline but fear not their is always sport, as there always has been before.
Think like this for a moment.
All we need is the following ingredients from a proven recipe, some of which we have already.
Celtic Tiger
1x Ageing Foreign Football Manager
4x Decent Football players
2x Major Football finals
2x Game against England
4x Game series between Meath and Dublin
1x Mediocre Rugby Team
There are few positives to take from the current shambles but think about it, when it was bad, we had some of the greatest sporting events a nation can hope for. So maybe we will be borrowing money off each other to buy pints of harp by the local dole office, but at least we will be able to enjoy the big games on terrestrial tv, because who's going to pay for Sky Sports anymore?
Lastly, RTE should commission Roddy Doyle to do a 5 year series on the state we are in, to distract us from whats really going and make us feel like we are all extras in a docu-drama.
