BY right, the setting for this week’s feature should have been gathered at the kitchen table in the Gordon household, chatting with one of Ireland’s most gifted showmen and surrounded by silverware and ribbons won by the family over five decades in the showring. There’s little ‘right’ however about how 2020 has panned out and catching up with Anthony Gordon follows the now predictable pattern of another interview-by-phone.

“We’re fine, thank God. We’ll do our best to stay safe but isn’t it a strange year?” Anthony responded, when asked how he and wife Peggy are coping with Covid-19 restrictions and being cocooned at their Kincon home, near Ballina.