John Fogarty: Private Dublin turn from the hunters to the hunted

Dublin, who for so long have pointed the camera at others, had the lens turned in their direction
John Fogarty: Private Dublin turn from the hunters to the hunted

EPIC FAIL: Innisfails GAA club in Balgriffin played host to a Dublin training session last week. The All-Ireland champions have made a habit of operating in secrecy, but they were left brutally exposed this week in the media. Picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

You may have noticed the movie Heat was on RTÉ 2 Saturday night, the first time Robert De Niro and Al Pacino ever shared the screen at the same time.

Aside from their famous face-off in the diner, there’s a great scene where Al Pacino and his fellow LAPD detectives, having surveilled De Niro and his criminal gang apparently case a robbery in an oil refinery and a scrapyard, go to check what exactly they were looking at. The policemen are flummoxed until Pacino’s character twigs it: “You know what they’re looking at? The LAPD. The Police Department. We just got made.”

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