Podcast: Castleisland's Christmas gift - 50 years of the famous basketball blitz

Tony Leen talks to the originals — the men and women who started with one basketball and a roll of masking tape.

Podcast: Castleisland's Christmas gift - 50 years of the famous basketball blitz

A basketball tournament that began in a converted ballroom in Castleisland 50 years ago has attained national and international acclaim, not because it attracted many of the sport's luminaries but because it never forgot where it came from.

Tony Leen talks to the originals — the men and women who started with one basketball and a roll of masking tape.

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