{"title":"Tatch","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"rsd01","title":"Playing the holy rugby at RSD","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eThis 100 page A4 book marks fifty years since RSD last graced a Schools’ Cup final, a time when the so-called ‘country yokels’ refused to bow before the bigger Belfast schools. Between 1970 and 1976, through sheer will, fearless heart, and great coaching, boys turned themselves into giants of School's rugby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eMuch of this story is down to Max Watson, whose reports for \u003ci\u003eThe Courier\u003c\/i\u003e captured not just the scorelines but the raw intensity of battle. Thanks go too, to other pupils and coaches who scribbled their accounts into school magazines, preserving each heroic tackle, each glorious try, and the dreams of a school that dared to defy expectation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: black;\"\u003eThis is not just a book. 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What you’ll read is something more personal. A series of stories that began life as newspaper reports in the Tyrone Courier and Dungannon Observer, that were then rescued thanks to microfilmed editions and rewritten and given space to breathe again in book form.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;\"\u003eThey’re the kind of stories that will never make any serious history book: a concert in a local hall, a church bazaar, a sports day, a farewell service, or a tragedy that shook the village to its core. Back then the local correspondent gave the bones of the story, but did not flesh out the picture. I’ve tried to add depth, bring colour and give personality to what time has faded.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm; min-height: 12.0px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;\"\u003eIn some cases, I’ve told the story through another set of eyes. A participant, a bystander, or a local character leaning against the wall and watching it unfold. 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