The try that shook the world

He captured the iconic images that still command our attention thirty years later. And he’s the only photographer who’ll be there again tonight for the reunion with the All Blacks. Des Barry reflected on past and present with Michael Moynihan.

THE PICTURES may be monochrome, but the memories pulse in rich technicolour. Thirty years ago Des Barry took the immortal photographs of Munster beating New Zealand in Thomond Park.

That day in Limerick wasn’t the start of it, mind.