There was a scene in 1996 play Disco Pigs where Cillian Murphy’s character gets ranty and emotional about the glories of his home city. “Dinny Irwin… Roy Keane… Champion da Wonder Horse,” the 20-year-old actor gushed as Pig, his first proper role.
The latter name is a reference to athlete Sonia O’Sullivan, and in that snippet of script, Dublin writer Enda Walsh managed to nail a trait of his adopted hometown. Leesiders had long suspected their city was special. The achievements of their homegrown heroes made them think the rest of the world was at last realising it too.
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