A trailer has been released for the upcoming documentary One Night in Millstreet, which focuses on Steve Collins' victory over Chris Eubank in Cork in March 1995.
Anyone who was a child in Ireland at the time will remember the excitement ahead of the fight, as the Celtic Warrior prepared to take on the charismatic WBO Super-Middleweight Champion.
Collins was the WBO middleweight champion, after defeating Chris Pyatt the previous May, while Eubank was the eccentric showman of British boxing, and a tabloid favourite.
The film is directed by Andrew Gallimore, who won an IFTA in 2011 for In Sunshine or in Shadow, which told the story of the 1985 fight between Barry McGuigan and Panamanian Eusebio Pedroza.
Gallimore appears to be back on form with One Night in Millstreet, with the movie already picking up the Audience Award at the Cork International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Irish Film Festival London.
Collins v Eubank documentary
"This sports documentary recalls in rich detail how Steve Collins dethroned Eubank following weeks of lively engagements and press conferences between the two," reads the IMDB synopsis.
"As well as the key parties involved it also features Barry Hearne, Noel C Duggan, Tony Quinn and journalist Paul Howard. Eubank, forever the showman, is funny and engaging, recognising Collins for his win.
"For all its humour, the film addresses the darker elements of boxing. How Steve Collins was given his huge opportunity after Belfast fighter Ray Close had to stand down when a routine scan showed lesions on his brain. And Eubank's career had been touched by controversy, including the life-changing injuries sustained by Michael Watson in their fight just four years earlier."
18 March 1995; Chris Eubank, right, and Steve Collins during their WBO Super-Middleweight Title Fight at Green Glens Arena in Millstreet, Cork Boxing. Photo by David Maher/Sportsfile
"A glimpse into Ireland's past"
Gallimore said of the movie: "The intention for One Night in Millstreet was to evoke a time and place - Ireland in the mid-Nineties, when the country was undergoing enormous social and economic changes.
"For Irish audiences who lived through it, the film is sure to bring back all those feelings of excitement around the fight but also that sense of uncertainty that accompanies times of great change.
"For younger audiences, it's a glimpse into Ireland's not-so-distant past with a cast of who capture that 'anything is possible' spirit of the time."
The era was very much a golden one for Irish sport, with the likes of Sonia O'Sullivan and Jack Charlton's football team etching themselves into national folklore, and Collins was no different.
One Night in Millstreet will be in cinemas on April 5th.
