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Murray Kinsella and Bernard Jackman join Gavan Casey to dissect one of the great Irish victories -- and one of the most bizarre games in recent memory. 'Berch' felt the game was lost when both Dan Sheehan and Rónan Kelleher were struck down, so just how did Ireland wind up winning it so convincingly?

And how did Scotland manage to pass up such a golden opportunity for a landmark win?Plus: Steve Borthwick's England fell foul of 'The David Clifford of rugby', Antoine Dupont, and one of the best French performances in the Six Nations era.

The lads assess both side's markedly different levels of performance and the challenge England will still pose to Ireland in next weekend's Slam decider.

And Italy paid the price for thinking they automatically had the beating of Wales, but Berch reckons Warren Gatland's men haven't turned a corner even in avoiding the spoon in Rome.

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Episode 52 of Behind the lines guest is Paul Howard, the man behind Ross O’Carroll Kelly and previously a sportswriter of great renown with the Sunday Tribune. Paul chats first about why he got out of sportswriting and then of his most memorable days within it, including the day he confronted referee Raul Nazare with Eoin Hand’s tape of the World Cup qualifier against Belgium, a game in which Nazare effectively shafted us. 

We also hear how Ross O’Carroll Kelly was partly inspired by the time Paul was sued over getting a tryscorer’s name wrong in a schools rugby match, and of how he may have accidentally contributed to a defeat for Steve Collins in a European title fight in Italy. 

Paul’s picks were: “Paddy Moore” an essay by Sean Ryan in the Book of Irish Goalscorers; “Johnny Owen’s last fight” by Hugh McIlvanney; “Ali and his Entourage” by Gary Smith for Sports Illustrated ; “The fatal attraction of Claveyrolat” by Paul Kimmage for the Sunday Independent.

Get in touch with us - email behindthelines@the42.ie, tweet @gcooney93. 

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In the second episode of the series, Enda Coll explores the world of German football and its heterogeneous fan culture. Charting the rise of hooliganism in the country from the 1980's onwards, he looks at the clamping down on football by authorities after the World Cup in France in 1998, the rise of the Ultra scene, the role that some football hooligans played in the anti-lockdown protests during COVID and the Neo-Nazis in that group, who are training professionally in gyms.

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