Saipan: Reliving demise of Ireland’s soccer dream

EVERY undertaker knows about keeping a respectful distance between burial and billing. The same code does not apply, however, to every profession.

For as long as there has existed the ability to print, photograph and film, disasters have been ripe for reporting, reproducing and dramatising in the factual and creative media with the rule of thumb being “the faster the better”.

The last air bubble had barely worked its way to the surface from the Titanic when the first movie short appeared, spawning an industry that continues to the retell the story with insatiable regularity to this day.