‘Hell for Leather' review: This stylish history of Gaelic football is marred by the usual pretentious, self-mythologising GAA nonsense
Pat Stacey
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My late, great friend and fellow Independent/Herald scribbler George Byrne mischievously coined the terms 'bogball and stick fighting' to describe Gaelic football and hurling.
I can easily guess what George would have thought of Hell for Leather: The Story of Gaelic Football (RTÉ One, Monday, June 9 and RTÉ Player), a five-part history of the sport from Crossing the Line Productions, which did a similarly epic job on hurling in the 2018 series The Game.
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