RTÉ chorus singing from the same hymn sheet

A case of Beauty and the Beast as the Montrose cast take a final bow, says Larry Ryan

IN the hours before the final, all the talk had been about the big selection dilemma. He’s had an indifferent tournament, seemed out of sorts at times; yet Ray Houghton got the nod alongside George Hamilton in the RTÉ gantry.

Behind him, the back three had picked itself and all were singing from the same song sheet — this was to be a return to Broadway for Beauty and the Beast.