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When the Mayne man was in charge

RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER

PLAYING I reland and Lions rugby legend Paddy Mayne in any film representation of the SAS was always going to be a plum role and its Jack O’Connell, one of the brightest rising stars of stage and screen, who landed the role in Rogue Heroes which starts on BBC tonight.
O’Connell, Derbyshire born of Anglo-Irish stock, made his name in Skins and then starred as the outlaw Roy Goode in Godless and the troubled surgeon Richard Summer in North Water when he fought off the murderous Henry Drax in the high Arctic after a whaling expedition went badly w...

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