IF last year’s inaugural staging of Irish Champions Weekend was a toe-dip into waters unknown, you can plunge head first into this year’s next weekend.

There is less resistance to everything this time. It’s not change any more, more development. It’s a lot easier approaching the bride and showing her a video of a wedding you have organised before, than it is going to her and assuring her that you can organise a wedding. You promise. (Just don’t organise it for next weekend.)