'It might just go on forever': Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Castleisland Blitz

A basketball tournament that began in a converted ballroom 50 years ago today 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.

Shortly after 6.30am this morning, Eamonn Egan pointed his van from Tullig into Castleisland town and its widest street.