Dynamic duo answer the call

THERE’S a cameraman with UTV, a gregarious blonde-locked man called Albert Kirk, and before Saturday’s monumental match against England, he was doing a few tricks in the Croke Park press-room to relieve the tedium of the Scotland/Italy game on television.

It was professional standard stuff yet it wasn’t a patch on the magic that followed from an Irish backline that lived up to its world-class reputation, the sleight of hand that started with the unparalleled passing of Stringer and went through O’Gara, D’Arcy, O’Driscoll, to either Hickey or Horgan, to the supporting Dempsey.

Two, however, we must single out.