Players’ neck hairs stand to attention

Michael Moynihan was wowed by last night’s fly-on-the-wall documentary on the Irish rugby squad.

Players’ neck hairs stand to attention

FOR the anoraks among us who love a peek behind the curtain into elite teams’ dressing-rooms, last night’s ‘Reaching for Glory: Inside Irish Rugby 07’ was another little gem.

Coming as it did from Dave Berry and Nathan Nugent, makers of Final Words 04 and 05, and Brian Kerr’s World Cup Diary, the grammar of the documentary was unmistakable: interviewees in a darkened room reacting to film, action sequences sound-tracked well and of course, the all-important access-all-areas footage.

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