Thanks to our leaders for being good sports

In a compelling series of sporting interviews with Northern Ireland party political leaders in the Belfast Telegraph this week, we learnt that Sir Jeffrey Donaldson would love to spend 90 minutes with Sir Alex Ferguson; Colum Eastwood’s favourite sporting moment is the Republic of Ireland defeating Italy in the 1994 World Cup; Naomi Long’s sporting heroes are champion ice skaters Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean; and Doug Beattie was serving in Kosovo when his beloved Ulster Rugby team won the European Cup in 1999.