A Kerry youth club sets about creating a new world record for non stop five a side football.
Members of Fossa Youth Club in Killarney, County Kerry spent the August bank holiday weekend breaking the world record for the longest game of five a side football.
They played for 57 hours.
The Fossa Club recaptured a record they had set originally at 55 hours was broken by the Duke of York's Royal Military School in Britain.
The club sent details of their latest 57 hour effort to the Guinness Book of Records for ratification.
The players were hosed down with cold water following their efforts.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 5 August 1975. The reporter is Dermot Mullane.
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