Gordon D'Arcy

And what we really liked with this was their reading.

They're coming back over and you're asking them to turn a page and then there's an action.

They jump up, they go do the action, then they come back and they want to see the next bit.

So they're quite heavily involved in the actual, not necessarily the reading of the book, but the actual reading.

role play and the engagement in the book and it seems to resonate really well and you know I was reading with my daughter Meadow last night and her favourite bit was the celebration dance so she's come up with multiple different celebrations and I gotta say they're getting better every time Okay and

This is the bit again, so you tell them to march around the room.

And again, my humble five-year-old was strutting around the room with her trophy above her head.

Yeah, absolutely.

And that was something we were quite conscious of with the first book, that we wanted to make it a little bit more collaborative, a little bit more open.

And because particularly at the ages there, it's, you know, when the kids are playing sport at that age, it's all mixed, it's all getting in and there's a much wider playing base there.

Is there a period in your life, obviously, let's take Mary out of this, but is there a period in your life where you've been this happy watching this movie?

You do think 15 minutes is a 10 or 15 minutes?

Yeah, but it's the Americanisation of it where they're splitting straight to ads.

So you do feel it's been very much, we needed to get ads into this, into a non-traditional American sport as quickly as possible.

And it was very serendipitous that we were playing in the middle of the summer and it was an opportunity to go into it.

I can't see European football, there we go,

The only sport I played was hurling until I was about 12.

So I'm from Wexford.

I might have forgot my maths book, but I never forgot my hurl going to school.

So then I went to a boarding school in Kildare and I went in and I started playing rugby.