Television review: GAA referee David Gough provides fascinating insights but overall this film needs to dig deeper
‘It’s boobing out!’ Kim Kardashian cries. Irish Times readers will recognise this reference to the Heaney poem of that name
You can empathise with him, but rather than dig deeper into subject of match abuse, the documentary, like a naive team up against a blanket defence, is a little bit all over the map. In Donegal, Coyle talked about the sacrifices required to be a ref. The scenes featuring rookie Eoghan Ó Muircheartaigh, for their part, seem to come from an entirely different documentary about the long road to becoming an inter-county referee.
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