PEOPLE are losing their loved ones and their jobs and I think if the worst you can say is that some of your plans got postponed, that’s not too bad really,” Sive Brassil said, reflecting on how the best-laid plans, even Olympics-sized ones, can go astray.

‘Wisdom before years’ applies to this 26-year-old old Tokyo modern pentathlon hopeful, now back in full-on training mode in Dublin after lockdown was spent at home in Ballinasloe, a laser gun beam away from Liz Scott’s house and stables which circles back to the recently-featured ISPCA inspector Karen Lyons, another of Scott’s proteges.