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Editing comes to a finish

As the Ireland players embark on their 2008 cricketing year, the final postscript to last year’s World Cup finals is in the shops.

We have had the books, now see the video. For all seven weeks of Ireland’s great adventure, Irishman Paul Davey, a documentary maker, followed the team with camera in hand and the result is a wonderful dvd capturing the unforgettable experience of a squad who went to their first World Cup expected to play three matches and return home but stayed to beat two Test nations and tie with another.

As well as the key match highlights, there is, thanks to physio Iain Knox, exclusive footage from inside the dressing room and on-the-spot interviews with many of the players and key officials.

The win against Pakistan and the Super Eight victory against Bangladesh may have been the highlights but the amazing events surrounding the death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer, who was staying in the Ireland team hotel, is extensively covered while the reaction of the Irish fans is not forgotten.

For anyone who was part of the Caribbean experience, it is a ‘must view’ and the, hopefully, not once-in-a lifetime experience will be enjoyed by even non-cricket fans.

Breaking Boundaries is available in shops now and on line from www.irishcricketdoco.com,

” Brilliant.. an absolute triumph!.. An emotional rollercoaster behind one of Ireland’s greatest and most unlikely sporting success stories.”
Demelza de Burca - Irish Daily Mirror

‘Breaking Boundaries – Ireland’s Extraordinary Cricket World Cup’ is now on sale.

Along with the film, the DVD contains almost an hour of extras that include outtakes, deleted scenes, extended interviews, comments from opposing teams, and a filmmaker interview.

See below, to find out how to obtain copies, both in Ireland and Worldwide.

Worldwide:

Order from this website (click the dvd cover in the top left hand corner), DVD’s will be delivered straight to your door.

Ireland (Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland):

Copies can be ordered from this website or purchased in any of the following stores:

BPM RECORDS – Waterford and Wexford

CASTLE MUSIC EX – Dublin Airport

CD World – Drogheda

CELTIC NOTE – Nassua Street, Dublin

Cool Disc – Derry/Londonderry

GOLDEN DISCS – Republic of Ireland

HEARTBEAT CITY – stores in Tullamore, Thurles, Kilkenny, Mullingar, Waterford, Longford, Edenderry and Gorey

Hickeys – Bantry, Cork

HMV IRELAND LTD – Republic of Ireland

HMV Northern Ireland – Belfast and Antrim

LEE RECORDS – Tralee

MUSIC EXPRESS – Killarney

Music World – Athlone

MUSIC WORLD – CARRIGALINE

RECORD RACK THE – Ennis

REDLIGHT RECORD – Galway

ROXY RECORDS – stores in Southwest – Cork, Kerry and Carlow

SOUND CITY – Galway

The Music Shop – Ennis

THIRD WAVE MUSIC – Sligo

Tower Easons – O’Connell Street, Dublin

TOWER RECORDS – Dublin

Zavvi – Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland

‘Breaking Boundaries’ - Ireland’s Extraordinary Cricket World Cup

“..an immense cricket story, inspirational both in the tale and the manner of its telling”
Duncan Steer - SPIN magazine (Editor)

“A refreshingly honest, heartfelt film, which captures the mood of those extraordinary few weeks completely.”
Alison Mitchell - BBC 5 Live

The DVD will be released on Friday March 7th (Pre release copies available from this website).

DVD Highlights..

An emotional and action packed film, it will feature almost an hour of exciting extras including extended interviews, deleted scenes, out-takes, reactions from international cricket stars Ricky Ponting (Australia), Michael Vaughan (England) and members of the South Afrian and New Zealand teams, press conferences and an interview with the filmmaker.

SPIN Magazine (UK) - Duncan Steer (Editor)

“Paul Davey’s access-all-areas film following Ireland’s run at the 2007 World Cup is an immense cricket story, inspirational both in the tale and the manner of its telling. We know the outline already: how Ireland’s postmen, schoolteachers and farmers took on the pros and, against the odds, won through to the second stage of cricket’s biggest tournament. But to a great sporting story, Davey brings the skills of a first-rate documentary maker, as he traces the personal journeys of the players, as they beat Pakistan on St Patrick’s Day – only for it to be over-shadowed by the death of Bob Woolmer the next day.

“We cried together, we laughed together, we lived it together. And it must be very hard for someone looking in to imagine what it must have been like,” says teacher/spinner Kyle McCallan at one point.

But Davey’s film takes us as close as any outsider has any right to expect.

Davey is granted amazing access to the team: as the team closes down Zimbabwe on their way to a nerve-wracking tie in the first game, he is in a back-room of the dressing room talking to coach Adi Birrell, who can hardly bear to watch. Davey’s at the post-match team sing-song, too – and then at the half-time team-talk after they’ve bowled out Pakistan for 132.

Skipper Trent Johnston goes round the room and puts the big question to his players, one by one: “Do you want to back in Dublin delivering post on Monday? Do you want to be back teaching this time next week?” Davey’s also there when Trent Johnston gets a call from Irish president Mary McAleese and puts her on speakerphone so the rest of the chaps can hear.

Sharply edited throughout, Davey takes us right to the middle of the changing atmosphere around the team: from the tension of the big games to the conflicting emotions as the team become national heroes, while finding themselves close to a developing murder investigation.

Inevitably, the most compelling moments appear in the first half here, before cricketing reality kicks in and the Woolmer investigation starts to drag on. But the film rattles through in a highly watchable 52 minutes and if anything, the editing is so tight and so obviously drawn from many different sources – numerous interviews, backstage eavesdropping, match footage – that there’s a real feeling that plenty of good stuff has been left on the cutting room floor. Cricket is not blessed with a history of genuine, high quality documentary films, but this is really very good indeed – and leaves you wanting plenty more.

BBC (UK) - Alison Mitchell - 5 Live

“A refreshingly honest, heartfelt film, which captures the mood of those extraordinary few weeks completely.”

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Martin McGuinness Interviewed

Sunday March 16

Radio 1 - Robbie Irwin Sports Bag (Time 10:00AM)
(Director Intervew)

Listen on http://www.rte.ie/radio/index.html

Belfast Royal Academy presents……..

‘BREAKING BOUNDARIES - Ireland Extraordinary Cricket World Cup’

Speaker: Adrian Birrell - Irish world cup coach

The Library, Belfast Royal Academy, Cliftonville Road Belfast

Thursday 13th March 2008

7.30pm

Light Refreshments Provided Price £10

The Night is being run by the Old Boys Association to raise money towards new covers at the Castle Grounds and the Senior Rugby Tour to South Africa