WHO needs Google when you can call Sally Carroll? Three years after leaving the Irish National Stud, handing the reins of the world-renowned Thoroughbred Management Course to Anne Channon, Sally was back in Tully this week for a catch-up.

We met for a socially-distanced coffee, but not before she had said hello to half a dozen INS stalwarts whom we met on our way to the café, or as we arrived there. It was as though she had never left a place with which she has an almost half-century connection.