Cork's Walsh family to appear in first episode of Ireland's Fittest Family
The Walsh family from Cork, who take part in the first episode of a new series of Ireland's Fittest Family on RTÉ1, with their mentor, Michael Darragh MacAuley, a former Dublin GAA star and winner of eight All-Ireland medals.
Fans will see a host of radical changes when the new run begins on RTÉ1 on Sunday (November 2) at 6.30pm.
Instead of four coaches, there will be six - with Cork mentor Sonia O’Sullivan having left her role.
The other three coaches - Cork duo Donncha O’Callaghan and Anna Geary, and GAA great Davy Fitzgerald - will be joined by three new faces for the run.
The newbies are:
Retired Paralympic swimming champion and inspirational trailblazer Ellen Keane, of Dublin.
Michael Darragh MacAuley, former Dublin GAA star and winner of eight All-Ireland medals.
And Andrew Trimble, an Irish rugby legend with 70 caps to his name.
Along with some new adrenaline-pumping challenges, and stunning new locations, this series of Ireland’s Fittest Family promises to be the most hotly-contested in its 11-year history.
And the first episode on Sunday has a Cork family competing, as the Walsh family are mentored by debutant Michael Darragh MacAuley. The Rebel clan will face down Anna Geary’s two competitors - the McClement family, from Down, and the Carr family, from Westmeath - and the Byrne family of Dublin, also mentored by Darragh MacAuley.
It promises to be a fierce contest to mentor the nation’s fittest families through gruelling challenges designed to push them to the edge – physically and mentally.
Taking place in the rugged Gormanston Army camp, the Heats will unfold over three weeks, and each week one original coach will go head-to head with a new coach.
For the first time this year, the events are demonstrated by members of the Irish Defence Forces.
The families must each take on a brand new event, Box To The Top. Starting in the sea, this is a head-to-head race along an army training ground with kit-boxes and sandbags to carry along the course.
The four families then have their stamina tested by Truck Pull, heaving an enormous 7.5 tonne army truck along a decommission runway.
With the scores of the first two events are combined, the two highest-scoring families go through to the next round, and the two families at the bottom have to face off in the Army Eliminator.
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