Well, as welcomed as Good Friday Agreements are and all that talk of parities of esteem and new understandings between different traditions there is nevertheless something very sweet – la dolce -when we beat the English literally at their own game, be it at soccer, rugby and now best and sweetest of all, cricket! And beat them we did in some style by way of the fastest century ever in Test Cricket due in the main to the heroics of one Kevin O’Brien whose exploits of straight bats and all that sent reverberations around the cricket world- indeed earning well deserved plaudits from no
