Buckley charged with keeping special focus on Ireland

There is nowhere to hide for professional rugby players these days. Every move is covered, every strength and weakness highlighted — all by a video analyst lurking in the background.

Helping plot the downfall of Emerging Ireland’s opponents in the current IRB Nations Cup in Bucharest is 25-year-old John Buckley, who has just finished his first full year as video analyst with RaboDirect champions Leinster.

The former Castleknock schoolboy who played as an out-half has two different degrees, one in Economics and Geography from NUI Maynooth and in Sports Management from UCD, but then chose a different career path.