Sport s lie of the land in uncertain Covid times
Updated / Thursday, 11 Feb 2021
10:09
RTÉ Sport Journalist
Following the cancellation of last year s Aintree Grand National, the Jockey Club announced they would donate 10,000 tickets to NHS and social care workers for the opening day of the 2021 meeting.
But with Covid-19 still upending our lives in spite of the rollout of vaccines, it comes as no surprise that the donation will now be honoured, all going well, at the 2022 gathering on Merseyside.
The best-laid plans may count for nought with the virus and all its mutations still circulating around us. The lights at the end of tunnel are the vaccines, and as more of us get the jab, the hope will be that a semblance of normality will return.