Niamh Briggs: ‘You can’t magically make up international players’

Niamh Briggs was in Energia Park as part of the Guinness #NeverSettle campaign. Briggs acknowledges it will take Ireland’s grassroots game time to develop. Picture: Bryan Keane

Niamh Briggs is waxing lyrical about Dynasty, the brilliant account of the New England Patriots and the Holy Trinity made up of Robert Kraft, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady that propelled a laughing-stock NFL franchise to unimagined levels of success across two decades.

A love of American football spans no more than five or six years but she’s already at the point where she will record Red Zone in its entirety if she can’t take it in live on a Sunday, which must be often given her ”nerdy” obsession with Mitre 10, the Premiership, and basically anything to do with rugby.