Motivated Mulkerrins planning to move in for the kill

Having just watched the great American, David Chapman, trounce the field at the World Handball Championships, Dunne suggested that the only way Chapman’s foes – and, by inference, the Irish – could beat him was if they “lassoed his legs together”.

The veteran journo’s thoughts reflected the common belief. As a skinny 17-year-old in Canada in 1997, Paul Brady recalled watching the best Irish players getting “hammered, beaten before they went into the court”.

“I was thinking that someone or some group has to change that at some point,” he said.

They did. By 2001, Brady and Cork’s Tony Healy were making inroads on the pro scene in the States. First they qualified, then consolidated. The Americans were spooked.

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