High five for Team Physicality

A local team created its own little piece of history at the weekend by winning the first GAA football 5 a-side national championships.
Made up of team and school mates from St Joseph’s, Rochfortbridge, the aptly named Team Physicality saw off the challenges of teams from across the country to be crowned the first Red Bull Cul 5 champions in Dublin Port at the weekend.
Played in a specially built 50 x 30m pitch in Dublin Port, this unique 5-a-side gaelic football tournament brought just under 100 players from nine counties to face off in an adapted version of the game, which included only goals.
Team Physicality’s seven man squad of Joe Hyland and Peter Fagan (Tyrrellspass), Killian and Ciaran Doyle and Sean Quinn (Raharney), captain Bobby Gonoud (Rochfortbridge) and Jack Murphy (Rhode) have played together for school teams for a number of years.
The local lads faced the Spar Spawell team in the final of the competition and ran out 5-3 winners. What makes the lads’ achievement all the more note worthy is that the competition is for minor teams and three of the seven have one year left at that level, while the rest have two years. Although the games were only five minutes a half, team member Sean Quinn said that he and his friends were flat out as the action was “seriously intense”.
Delighted to have won the competition, Sean said that he and his team mates entered the competition “for a bit of craic” but as they progressed the stakes began to rise. Congratulations lads.