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Watch: The tale of Ireland's bobsleigh team is coming to the big screen

Jason Branagan’s first documentary feature charts the unorthodox push to bring Ireland to the Winter Olympics.

NOBODY SAY Cúl Runnings, but this month’s Galway Film Fleadh will feature a documentary on the unsung Irish bobsleigh team who brought Ireland to the Winter Olympics.

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‘Breaking Ice’ brings an essential Irish sporting story, charting the track and field-turned-bobsleigh competitors’ efforts to qualify for the 1988 Games in Calgary. However, thanks to administrative and political tethers they were unable to compete and had to wait until the 1992 Games in Albertville to arrive on the big stage.

“I found parallels in what (the athletes) had to go through to make it to the Olympics and what indie filmmakers go through when trying to make films… It took us two years to make this film off our own bat,” said director Jason Branagan.

With eye-catching animation alongside interviews with the people at the heart of the tale, Branagan’s first documentary feature will premiere at the Galway Film Fleadh running from 7 – 12 July.

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    Jun 29th 2020, 1:32 PM

    Feel the Rhythm Feel the Rhyme.Get on up, it’s bobsled time!

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    Jun 29th 2020, 1:36 PM

    @robert o mahony: Ey Sanka

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    Jun 29th 2020, 2:38 PM

    @Stephen Lyons: Ya dead?

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    Jun 29th 2020, 7:34 PM

    @Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: ya man

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    Jun 29th 2020, 2:16 PM

    We had/have a bobsleigh team?

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    Jun 29th 2020, 2:23 PM

    @Johnny B: Some people y’know they say they can’t believe…

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    Jun 29th 2020, 2:30 PM

    @Johnny B: Yep. Have you never seen Cúl Runnings?

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    Jun 29th 2020, 6:54 PM

    We shall call her talulla

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    Jun 29th 2020, 7:36 PM

    @@Kevinro1980: Tallulah, sounds like a 2 dollar hooker. Where did you come up with that?

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