‘It’s like a moment caught in time defines the tactics of a manager’

Donie Mac Murchu is now embedded in the Waterford hurling backroom, helping to analyse games for Derek McGrath and his selectors, but it’s been a long journey for the man from An Rinn.

Growing up in west Waterford, hurling and football were Mac Murchú ’s games of choice. When RTÉ outsourced its outside broadcasting in 2002 opportunities opened up and Mac Murchú , who had trained as a camera operator with Nemeton, took them.

He went to work as a camera operator and then camera supervisor with The Sunday Game, which was a “massive honour”.