The Road Down Under was a chance to remind ourselves of a magnificent achievement, with the tournament build-up overshadowed by controversy elsewhere.
Ross Whitaker’s RTÉ documentary The Road Down Under was the perfect preview act: it’s always useful to remind ourselves of how something so significant was achieved, but in the case of this Irish team, it’s a necessary act of narrative.
This is nothing new for this group of players, however, given they qualified for the World Cup and then spent the following days forced to swallow the bloviating of English presenters and pundits in response to their foolish singing of Celtic Symphony in the dressing room. “I did as there was no other way”, she says of her decision to go public 30 years on. “I could have killed myself, but I wasn’t going to do that. I had to create space for myself, I had to create freedom.” She grows emotional in recalling the “warmth and love” of the Irish reaction.
The sporting arc is neatly drawn. The defiance at Liberty Hall is naturally included but it is ordered after the heartbreak of missing out on qualification of the European Championships, as Ireland contrived to lose on the final day of qualifying away to Ukraine. They needed merely to draw to go to a play-off, but a combination of Aine O’Gorman’s own goal and Katie McCabe’s missed penalty condemned Ireland to a crushing 1-0 defeat.
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