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SPORT

In this time of division and uncertainty, there is one thing we can all agree on: when it comes to sport and television, Desmond Lynam knows what he is talking about.

The greatest of all broadcasting front men, Des was for a generation there at the heart of everything, making us feel, with his warm twinkle, as if

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