It’s a cold but sunny wintry day and a group of men in their 60s and 70s are playing football on a small outdoor pitch in the Dublin suburb of Cabra.
But this is not the ordinary football played by millions across the world. These men are playing what is called walking football, an adapted form of soccer which is hugely popular in the UK, Spain and Portugal and now has about 50 groups of players across Ireland.
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“I never stopped playing football. I played in the over-35s. Then, I played five-a-side and just when I was finding it a bit fast, I discovered walking football,” says Paul Cumiskey.
“Look around,” he says. “the lads are buzzing before we even get out on the pitch. If you had the same group of fellas in the pub, they’d be talking about their ailments but here they are having a bit of banter.”
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