Ireland’s chef d’equipe Rodrigo Pessoa said: “It’s disappointing, we did so much in the first round to be in contention. The second round did not go well, one horse got eliminated, we made some small mistakes. Things did not come our way. The Mexicans were better today, no other way to say it.”

IT’S a rather wearing world at the moment. Blame Trump, blame Boris (though blame Johnson sounds better), blame social media, blame the new found ‘freedom of expression’ that simply allows you to abuse people anonymously.