Author: Brendan O’Brien, Paris

The term ‘minority sports’ isn’t one that anyone regards with affection. It’s up there with the awful ‘Tier 2’ that goes around rugby circles and the condescending ‘weaker counties’ tag that gets bandied about in hurling.It’s at once demeaning and unhelpful but it is a moniker that, like it or not, holds an undeniable grain of truth. Sport, like everything else, has its hierarchy but even minority pursuits can be stratified into the haves and the have-nots.Jenny Lehane was an international class taekwondo star whose ITF version of the sport isn’t part of the modern Olympic programme. It took a…