Senan Guilfoyle of Eastern Gaels shone in the Mayo GAA Junior Club Football Championship. Pic: David Farrell
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The McDonagh's and coach Davy Fitzgerald will feature on Sunday's Ireland's Fittest Family Final.
The final episode of Ireland's Fittest Family airs this weekend and will see one Mayo family compete in the grand final. The McDonagh’s from Geesala in North Mayo will go up against the Linehan’s from Cork, the Carr’s from Westmeath and the McKenna’s from Monaghan face off with the support of the remaining coaches.
Under the guidance of Hurling legend Davy Fitzgerald, the McDonagh family, consisting of Pat, his two children Leah and Matthew while 18 year old Daniel who is Pat's Grandson brings up the lineup.
For the Finals, Ireland’s Fittest Family lands in the magnificent Tower and Treetop Walk of Avondale in County Wicklow. In a feature-length episode, the four remaining families will battle it out to be named Ireland’s Fittest Family 2025.
Newbie coaches Ellen Keane and Michael Darragh MacAuley have crashed out of the competition, leaving solo newbie Andrew Trimble to fight it out with Anna Geary, Donncha O’Callaghan and current champ Davy Fitzgerald.
All the families will be starting by competing against each other in the terrifying 'Planking It' where family members have to hold a plank on a see-through platform suspended 20m above the forest floor. Then they’ll be facing another brand new event 'Tower Power' which will see contestants racing with increasingly heavy weights to the summit of the 38m Avondale Tower. The bottom two families will then go head to head in 'Buzz Kill', a shuttle-run contest from hell with the losing family leaving the competition.
The scores are then wiped clean as the three remaining families compete in Fittest Family favourite 'Backs Against The Walls' with only the top two families staying in the competition. Those two families will battle it out in the Grand Final Race. The first family at the top of the ramps will win that €15,000 prize and the title of Ireland’s Fittest Family 2025.
You can watch the final of Ireland's Fittest Family on Sunday evening on RTÉ One from 6.30PM.
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