Davy Fitzgerald on the Toughest Team, becoming a father again and learning to listen

The Clare hurling legend on the return of his Toughest Team, why it’s good to talk – and why there was never any doubt over the future of Ireland’s Fittest Family

Davy Fitzgerald in Co Clare: "When you do something like Toughest Team, it is draining physically but the reward when something goes right is absolutely incredible." Pic: Eamon Ward

Davy Fitzgerald loves to talk. Whether he’s pacing up and down the sidelines shouting directions as a GAA coach or urging on his team as a mentor on Ireland’s Fittest Family, the former Clare hurler turned TV personality is never short of words. When it came to his latest TV outing, however, he says the most important thing he could do was sit back and listen. 

In the second series of Davy’s Toughest Team, he mentors a group of young men facing a range of issues, from substance abuse to self-harm, as they face various physical and mental challenges, bring them from the wilds of Clare to the chilly expanse of Iceland along the way.