Finally, over the past fortnight, Gaelic games have resumed. Real live action with full contact.  It was a welcome if not quite pulse-racing moment. No matter how hard you try to dress it up and imagine otherwise, on television at least, sport played out before empty stands and barren terraces always makes for a somewhat soulless spectacle.  Still, it was something. A start. Like the unchaining of club gates countrywide and the return to training of kids and adult club players – the most severely Covid-impacted of all GAA groups – it’s a positive portent, a pointer that pandemic restrictions…

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