The Limerick influence on Bodø/Glimt's remarkable rise that has unified Norway

Tomás Lane spent almost two years living in northern Norway working as Lead Academy Physical Performance coach at this season's fairytale outfit 

Glimt's players celebrate at the end of the Champions League win over Inter Milan. Pic: AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

EIGHTY kilometres inside the Arctic Circle sits the Norwegian coastal town of Bodø, historically serving a fishing community and a major transport hub for northern Norway.

Just 15 sq kms in size and with 50,000 inhabitants, it is home to long, dark polar days and nights as the sun barely reaches the horizon, such is the proximity to the North Pole.