TV view: RTÉ's prescient heads prevail as BBC bring celeb smarts from Rachael and Paul
BOXING CLEVER: Retired jockey Rachael Blackmore and actor Paul Mescal during the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship final match between Cork and Tipperary at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Seb Daly/Sportsfile
It was shortly before throw-in when Liam Sheedy stood on the Croke Park pitch, RTÉ mic in hand, and offered one of the most prescient lines of the day. “The hype train is going to turn into a pressure cooker here,” he said, and so it proved. Because an hour or so later, that hype train had fully derailed.
But Sheedy had company in the prescience stakes. Because long before John McGrath had popped up for his two goals, RTÉ’s co-commentator Michael Duignan had flagged up the danger in the first half. “That’s the ball,” said Duignan over a replay of McGrath unleashing havoc. “Get it in front of him diagonally.” Things might have looked grim for Tipp at half-time, but anyone in blue would have been wise to remember the words of a bearded Tipp fan who told us on RTÉ before the game: “We always believe. We’re Tipperary, sure.” Hard to argue with that.
