Eamonn Coghlan (Independent)

I thank Senator Harte for his compliments on the documentary, "Man on a Mission", which won an IFTA recently. I was very proud to have done my first documentary in Kenya and witnessed the spirit of those young Kenyan athletes who live in poverty and rather difficult conditions. However, this brings me on to an appalling documentary about bare-knuckle boxing that I saw on television last Sunday, entitled "Knuckle". It traced feuding between a number of families in the Traveller community during a 12-year period. Brothers, cousins, fathers and grandfathers beating the pulp out of one another made no sense whatsoever.