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If I'm away from my family, I could do anything I wanted.

Basically, I could just go downtown and, like, mess and do bad things.

But, yeah, that's a... that's the bad side.

Like, away from your parents, you can do anything.

Em... But then there's a good side.

You get experience for how to live your life and, eh,

and, like, how the world works.

? (guitar riff) Toughen up!

? Fontaines DC "Boys in the Better Land"

(splash) Be a man!

? You're not alive until you start kicking

? When the room is spinning and the words aren't sticking ?

You might have to get your teeth replaced! (Charlie laughs)

Imagine that! And new glasses as well! (both laugh)

Boys don't cry.

? And the radio's all about a runaway model

? With a face like sin and a heart like a James Joyce novel ?

(shouting)

(cheering)

? Saying sister, sister, how I missed ya, missed ya

? Let's go wrist to wrist and take the skin off of my blister ?

You wanna be soft.

? Well... but the boys in the better land

? You're always talking about the boys in the better land.

? The boys in the better land

(shouting and laughing)

? But the boys in the better land

? You're always talking about the boys in the better land

? The boys in the better land

Jesus!

Man up! Man up!

Yeah! (cheering)

Yeah!

Yeah! (shouting and cheering)

Lights! Camera!

Action!

I used to play...

football, I used to play rugby, I used to do hockey,

I'd say the first few weeks of the sports, I was enjoying it,

but eventually, like...

if I was trying to sit down, and...

after going to school, or I wanted to go,

mostly I wanted to go outside with my friends,

and sports would be on the time,

it was like "Oh no." But it kept me much fitter.

And that's... kind of the thing I have to decide.

Do I want to be much fitter or do I want to be kind of happier?

With only a few weeks before we face

the all-Ireland champions of rounders,

I want to get to know the boys more.

And in my experience,

I found there's no better way to do that than with team sports.

I kind of found when I entered team sports,

I was like, you know, I was sick of being

lonely, and winning by myself, training by myself.

And slowly the enjoyment of that just kind of ran out.

And then when I found team sports, it was a new enjoyment.

It was like... I could see lads,

I could see my friends on a Tuesday, Thursday evening,

you know, catch up, being able to play with them together,

winning together, like, it's just...

It feels different and it brings a different kind of joy,

which I feel like the lads should at least

experience once in their life to see how enjoyable it is.

? (plays sombre minor key tune)

Like, in Phoenix Park, I had to run a 2.5K

for, eh, the track field in school.

And, like, you really want to give up

at about halfways through, but you just have to sort of push through,

and it's the same one learning a very difficult song.

Like, you think "Oh, there's no way I can do this,

but you have to just sort of keep on trying until you get it.

But it's also, um, in music, once you accomplish something,

you can always enjoy it by just replaying it, whenever you want.

And it's, like, quite hard to, like, re-make something in sports.

? (plays mellow tune)

Everybody needs to be somewhat unique, at least.

Like, you'd see...

like, boys my age going around in, like,

20 in a group, and they'd all look identical,

same haircuts, same clothes.

And, like, I just don't think It's healthy for them.

Don't be weak.

I'm Ois�n Sean Anthony Corrigan,

I'm into history and politics,

I have two dogs,

uh...

I... Yeah...

Eh, how else could I describe myself, you know?

I might not be the biggest, or even interested in sports that much, but

you know, there's no point in getting yourself worked up about it.

It, you know...

Worst case scenario, it's horrible.

Best case scenario, it's great.

You make... you meet loads of new people and you get a lot of money.

And so far, most of them have come true...

but the money.

Jimmar, all you're going to do is lob it into me

and I'm just going to tip it back to ya.

So all we're doing is just making contact.

You're getting your eye on the ball. That's all you're doing,

alright? We're going to be in groups of three.

All it is, is you're going to have a pitcher, batter, catcher.

You're going to be just making contact with the ball,

tipping it back to the pitcher.

If the ball goes by you, the catcher is there to stop it,

alright? And just five of those each,

and we're going to keep rotating in the positions, alright? Yeah.

It's one of the four main GAA sports,

its, eh, football, hurling or camogie,

handball and rounders, so...

it's a sport that I've seen anyway in the last couple of years

growing massively. You can kinda bring

different skills to the game.

So you might be really good at hitting the ball,

catching, running, judging the ball in the air.

So it's a little bit of something for everybody.

Eyes on the prize!

Nice.

One.

Wait, wait, wait!

Right, alright, yeah! (laughs)

(beep)

You know, it's just kinda...

a couple of steps and just repeating it and repeating it.

And I think it really helped,

and I think we're improving bit by bit.

And so hopefully tomorrow, and by tomorrow...

(beep) Hopefully tomorrow...

(beep) (sighs)

Hopefully to... (laughs)

Like, edit the...

You know, like, edit it back.

You know, just like, snip this out. (beep)

So today's plan was to show the lads

a bit about the game of rugby.

I just wanted to give them a little insight of...

kinda... little skills you might use, eh,

for the game of rounders because a lot of sports have a lot of

same kind of, eh, instruments that you'd need to use, so

I brought in my friend and obviously good teammate,

Bryan Mollen,

em, just to kinda show him and teach him

some of the basic skills you need from handling,

and one of the really important ones was communication,

it was about talking.

My name is Cathal Bennett, and I'm 14 years old.

I...

I'd love to try all the sports, really,

I think that's my main kind of goal

for the week, for the... or the coming weeks, like...

Em... There's nothing really that I wouldn't be up for.

I'm kinda up for everything at the moment.

Have you any questions about rugby before, or...?

Like, what's the difference between rugby sevens

and, like, normal rugby?

Sevens is a shorter game.

So you only play seven minutes a half.

So, eh, rugby 15s is 40 minutes a half,

so obviously a lot longer game.

And then another big difference is

we only have seven people on the pitch.

And we still play on the same field as the 15s do, so...

Seven lads on a full-size rugby pitch.

That means there's more space to run,

also more tries to be scored,

which kinda... is a little bit more entertaining.

(Commentator) ...first points of the game,

and they've gone really deep here to Bryan Mollen in the pocket.

Mollen just stitches them up in midfield! (crowd roars)

(whistle blows)

Ireland sweep away to the left, and here's the opening score...

Bryan Mollen with a run in! (whistle blows)

Hands on feet, knees, head!

Other person's head! Shoulders!

Other person's head!

Feet!

Knees, shoulders, knees, feet, shoulder, knees!

Ball! (boys grunt, laugh and shout)

Yeah!

Nice bend over! It was a draw! I won that!

Who won that? Put a ball in the air.

Alright. Me!

You can throw one dummy or just throw it straight away.

Now you have to throw it.

Ah! Oof, that ws fast. Go on! Keep going, keep going!

To the best of my knowledge, and I know for 100%,

I have severe dyslexia.

And I have dyspraxia,

which I've put so much work into helping with,

but it still...

holds me back in ways that I wouldn't even think about.

For example, when I was small,

I never wanted to play ball sports,

because I just couldn't get the hand eye coordination.

Challenge yourselves! One, two, three!

That's it, Jimmar, running space, hold!

? We are young ? Support him, support him!

? We run green ? Get him! One hand!

? Keep our teeth nice and clean ? Ah, hard luck!

I'm really, really, like, blown back by these guys.

There was many elements of fun,

but, no, we just decided to challenge ourselves

with having a little game of, you know, the Crossbar Challenge,

rugby style, and

and walk up to the camera, introduce yourself,

on a little funny line.

All right, Charlie, set it up.

Come on, Charlie!

Let's go!

The name's Butterfingers.

Oh, no! (laughter)

Take two. (beep)

The name's Charlie, A.K.A. Butterfingers.

Go on, Butterfingers!

(groans, laughter) Get out of here!

Me name's Darragh, and I'm a pitcher.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Hi, my name's Sean, and I can take Jordan.

? Feel alright ?

I scored! Who are you taking? Who are you taking?

(both grunt) ? Got some cash, bought some wheels ?

My name's Cathal, and I'm definitely faster than Jordan.

(laughter) ? Lost control, hit a wall ?

The one thing that... (sighs)

I always laugh at is people say "Oh, dyslexia and dyspraxia.

Oh, it's a gift!"

What is the gift?!

Where is the gift?!

It is a disability, not an ability, a disability.

And I wear that as a badge of honour.

You could sit around all day and... you know, "Oh, I can't read.

I can't speak Irish. I can't spell."

Big whoop, I can't,

and that's that.

You know? Get back up onto the horse and try again.

My name is Ois�n, and I'm guaranteed to win, 100%.

Not bad. Not bad.

Next one.

My name's Brian, and I never miss.

(Jordan laughs)

Wooooah!

Oh! What was that, bud?

Name's Jordan Conway, A.K.A. The Coach, A.K.A.

"If I miss this, I'm dead." (laughter)

Woah! Shit!

(shouting and laughter) Oh my God!

Pile on! Pile on!

(shouting and laughter)

We did this reaction drill, which was really fun,

and we did a possession game, which I really enjoyed,

but my favourite thing was doing the Crossbar Challenge.

And when Jordan got it we all ran and

jumped on top of him, which was really fun.

And then we played a bit of rounders,

and I was in the catcher position, which I really enjoyed.

Fully game situation for everything.

? (uplifting music)

(grunts)

Patrick, can you move into shortstop?

Here!

So today I have something completely different,

eh, planned for them,

because I just want to see who kinda thrives

or who kinda, you know, gives up,

so I just kinda want to teach 'em a little bit about that,

that certain things in your life you just can't

get without a bit of practice, so...

I'm going to challenge 'em today

and see how they fare with that one.

My name is Jacob, and I'm 14 years old.

I have three brothers.

They're all younger than me.

And, yeah, and I've my mum and dad living with me, so yeah,

that's basically my family at home.

I want the lads to try different sports

because it teaches different things.

Em, and I really want them to try rowing because

it's a great sport to help the lads kinda work

together in synchronisation,

to help the boys work as a team and to help them work as a unit.

Man up! (echoes)

Rowing is a coordinated movement

using 87% of the muscles in your body, okay, so

we need to be able to learn to row,

to be able to coordinate all those muscles together.

So the rowing stroke is 60% of the effort on the legs,

20% on the core, and 20% on the arms, okay?

(Interviewer) What would make you, like, what makes you

comfortable in yourself?

Like... sort of...

I feel myself, I'd say...

doing sports and, like, winning in a team of people,

like, especially when you're all, like, quite different.

Like, putting all those differences aside

and still, like, working together perfectly.

Look how strong you are with your legs. That's it.

Look how strong. Aaah! Look at that.

That's it. You're aiming for 155.

Okay, everyone, pick up your handles.

We're gonna do a sprint. Get ready...

Attention... Go!

That's it, on the legs. It's a sprint!

Go, Jimmar!

Don't be shy! Woah.

That's it. Two more strokes. Ready?

Down to zero, down to zero.

There we go!

Legs first, back, and then arms.

That's it, that's it.

Eh, I wasn't a big fan of the dark water.

When I first saw it, it was...

mmmm... it was a bit not nice,

'cause it was like this, boom!

Like, five metres down,

pitch black water was a bit...

It wasn't like slowly gradual, like a beach.

It was just boom, down,

and I didn't know where the bottom was,

and it was a bit scary.

And then we got in the boat, and the oars were giant!

And put your hands out in front of you, guys...

Okay!

Then turn the blades over,

okay, now lift the handle and pull the blade

into the... into the body.

That's it. That's it.

That's it. Asher... Yeah? That's it, that's okay, Charlie.

And we go again.

Okay.

Nice, flat hand. Yeah, that's it. You're okay.

Jimmar, do you have your phone in your pocket this time?

That's it.

Today was a challenging day.

Like, we did rowing, right which I thought was just gonna be like

canoeing where you get in and you just...

you just go for it.

No, it's just nothing like that,

and you have to, like...

Obviously, you're with the other lads,

so you have to move in coordination

and you have to synchronise it, which is really good

for, like, team bonding, I guess,

and like, teams, like, it's a really good team sport

'cause everything has to be together and you have to communicate.

But God, it's hard.

The other thing about...

about rowing, no matter what the shape, the size,

and again, some people, again, back to those field sports,

they may not be able to move that quick on the field sport.

Maybe they're carrying a bit of weight or they have a little bit...

kinda, eh, not in the...

not in the shape of the other kids.

They can come in here, you put them on the water,

and they're exactly the same.

Took us... in about...

I'd say, a solid 25 minutes,

we made about maybe... 400 metres? 400 metres in 25 minutes!

Like, what?!

And then loads, like, the boat was like, sideways for a bit,

like, it was going sideways.

Like, overall, I like to be in control.

There's no control over them things.

Jordan, keep those oars pushed out.

Yeah. Push out, push out!

That's it.

Push out!

Put your blade into the water square, okay?

Just square, with your wrist straight.

That's it, Jordan. Just making sure,

just look at your oars, Jordan.

Making sure they go in square. That's it.

I can feel myself getting a little bit frustrated with myself. I know,

I know. It's when you keep knocking yourself, and...

Yeah, 'cause it wasn't going right at first, the hand,

so I was getting a bit annoyed.

It's really funny because you

actually started at the same level as everybody else.

Yeah! Yeah! Do you know, and you had the same

trouble that Charlie had, or anybody else had,

even though you would be quantified as a good sportsperson.

Yeah! The lads there, like, I took inspiration from Hugo back there,

like, he was getting it wrong, but he just

kept going through it, kept going.

It's like, you know what, like,

I'm gonna be like Hugo,

and it's like, just calm down and go through the motions.

And it did work near the end. You got... you got it.

It is one of them sports that, you know,

makes you feel good about yourself,

'cause when I was in sync with everyone else,

like, I finally... "I'm finally working it!"

And it kinda clicked, yeah. It is! And

it was the most enjoyable thing, just... Yeah, yeah.

It's as simple as just getting in sync

with the row,. I know! And that was lovely, I just...

I just wanted to keep going.

I found it very fun.

Like, if I quit football, I might think of

joining rowing.

I'm just asking, eh, was it ever, like, really hard to get into it?

Like, when you first started, was it really, really hard,

or was it like... did it come naturally to you?

I got this name in the club, in this club,

as "the underwater sculler", so

basically, I spent more time flipping over

than anybody else in the club.

And they actually... that was my name.

I was most of the time, em, swimming!

Eh, but I found a real home in rowing,

em, it really rewarded my hard work,

and it was really a hockey stick of progress.

Once I committed and learned the technique,

it was kinda just... it was a natural progression.

It's like you're all connected,

like, you're all one person, and you're just trying to win, like.

You don't have any other disagreements or thoughts.

You're just trying to go forward.

? Moncrieff "Like I Do" ? Holding on to skin and bone

? Your wasted love that's not your own ?

I think the basics is our one

big thing we need to work on, or worry about and work on, like,

just getting to first base,

or just making sure we catch the easy ball coming to us,

not worrying about

throwing the ball before we actually catch it,

and then dropping the ball and then throw doesn't matter.

You know the way? So,

it's worrying about step by step by step

instead of planning three things

before we even have the ball in our hand.

Right, Jimmar, you jump back.

You're there. Okay.

Right, so we've a run around first. So either the first or second base.

Yeah, move it in, Charlie, that's it.

Alright?

Good to go.

But if you're on your knees, it's harder to get back up.

Brilliant. Go, go, go.

Okay, second base. Second base!

Brilliant. That's it.

Good stuff. Well done, Jimmar, brilliant!

? He don't love you like I do, like I do ?

At the start of COVID, I was very worried

'cause, like, I was hearing all these things about,

oh, people with asthma, you know,

they found it trouble... trouble to breathe, but

I was fine then after, and I'd only got COVID once,

but that was when it died down completely

and I had my vaccine and everything, so...

I found it really hard to, like, find stuff to do,

so I ended up eating a lot and

became over... really overweight for a while.

I don't really know, I'd say a bit of it

was because I hadn't seen my dad in two years, like,

and a bit of it was, like, stress that...

he's going to be really different and get annoyed that, like,

I hadn't tried to reach out to him

to see him in the last, like, two years or so.

But then I ended up seeing him and it was really nice.

We started doing stuff and it was just really fun.

It was basically like cabin fever.

Like, it was just, like, staying in.

I didn't even leave the house from June to December.

It was that kind of thing, like,

my parents were really scared, so, like...

only they would go outside, and...

and when they bought food, they, like, washed it very thoroughly.

It was very boring for me,

staying inside for, like, months and months at a time.

I'd wake up, get breakfast,

and just straight on the computer for, like, 10, 11 hours.

? (upbeat rock music)

My name is Peter Bull, and I'm a professional gamer in e-sports.

Over COVID, I couldn't really see friends

in person, so gaming allowed me to

connect with people rather than in person, over the Internet.

Let me introduce you to Peter, the professional e-gamer, lads,

so say welcome. Is his name not Patrick?

(Jordan laughs) How many frames can your computer go?

(laughs) The questions, we're going to go right in with questions,

'cause they've so many questions.

I wouldn't be the biggest gamer ever.

I just never really took to it.

It just was never really my thing,

but it was actually interesting that

Pacbull could get such a big career out of it and everything.

So it was interesting.

It's something that I've really, you know,

focused on this year is, uh,

taking care of my health outside of the game, because...

it's pretty easy to get lost, uh, with time,

when you're playing games, you know,

you can play for too long, basically.

I've been, you know, going to the gym,

eating healthy, and it's something that

I've seen boost my performance in-game, because...

yeah, with a clear...

clear head, you can... you, of course, play better.

I'd say there's, like,

there's two groups in the group, if you get me.

Like, there's two different types of personalities in the group.

Like, I'd say one would be more, like...

tech and all,

and then the other would be, like, athletic and all.

I think everyone respects each other, like,

because we all have our strengths, like.

Gaming has also kinda been a way of therapeutic for us,

because sometimes life can get a little bit on top of you,

and the only way for me to kinda switch off from

rugby or, you know, work, whatever it is, is just to game.

I would say there's definitely a lot of, eh...

a lot of benefits to gaming in moderation,

such as for me personally,

I've learned a lot of leadership skills, in my role, in my team.

Do you ever have any bad experiences with mates online?

'Cause I know whenever we're playing Pro Clubs or what not

in FIFA, there's some scraps in the party, like... (laughter)

It's true, though, like!

It's hard to take of responsibility sometimes,

but ultimately, that's the only way that you can improve.

And again, I think e-sports can kind of

translate a lot of, eh,

a lot of times into other aspects of life, you know.

We met a professional gamer, which was the last thing

I had expected

'cause, eh, never really associated gaming and sport,

but when you think about it, they're quite similar

with, like, commitments and dedication,

and, like, the focus that you play.

I'm close to sick!

Is Hugo winning?

How many CCs is this?

Hugo is in the back there. No, I'm losing! Relax, Hugo, relax!

What?! Hugo, come on.

Oh, no! He's gonna bump in!

Is he gonna take... (laughter)

Yes, Hugo! Good man, Hugo!

(all cheer)

We did mostly rounders today, so that was kind of fun,

and then a gamer came in to talk to us, and Hugo beat him!

So I think Hugo is the professional gamer now.

But, em, I'm going to go to bed.

(beep)

Some lads, I kind of feel like are tasting,

you know, a bit of freedom, you know,

eh, some boys... Nine!

..are kind of becoming wilder than others.

I want some speed!

Em, I feel like I'm dishing out a little bit more discipline

as the days are going on.

That's not your slope, is it?

You've got ears, bud! Use 'em!

I told you not to go down, and you didn't listen.

? (theme music)

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