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By Seamus Toomey<\/p>\n
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The Outdoor Pursuits Club made a video of their trip to the Alps this year and with a couple of hurls, an editor\u2019s eye and the help of a glacier they\u2019ve gone somewhat viral, being featured on many Irish news websites including joe.ie<\/i>.<\/p>\n
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What they did was bring a couple of hurls over to the Alps – a great idea given to Ryan Hanlon (the man behind the video) by Cormac Kelly.<\/p>\n
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Ryan O\u2019 Hanlon who donated his time to the making of the video said: \u201cYeah, the idea was that Kilkenny were playing the All-Ireland – the initial idea was maybe to get it up for the match or something crazy like that. It got like 800 shares and joe.ie<\/i> got another 200.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt wasn\u2019t really planned, we just said we\u2019d send it in, I gave it to a fella on joe<\/i> and he said it was an amazing video and we did an interview and they posted it up and that was cool. We hit it off.\u201d<\/p>\n
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With this simple idea and about 5 days worth of editing (as well as a month long trip) Ryan managed to get the club plenty of advertising and this was seen at the recruitment drive.<\/p>\n
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Ryan mentioned the amount of people that brought it up when joining saying: \u201cMultiple people came up not just to me, to the other guys saying \u2018Ohh I\u2019ve seen your video can I join?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
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If you haven\u2019t seen the video I implore you to watch it now, a quick google of \u201churleys glacier\u201d will find it. It\u2019s about four minutes of joy and my personal favourite part comes right at the end.<\/p>\n
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As revenge for a slap into the face that split Ryan\u2019s lip open he added in a short clip of Clare man Tim Quinlan struggling to climb to the \u201csummit of [Tim\u2019s] dreams\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Tim who has now been seen by a large portion of UL has been humiliated but in Ryan\u2019s own admission Tim had the wrong crampons on and the video is \u201cdeceitful in that there is actually a large overhang there, so we just lowered him down and walk of shame out of there\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Poor Tim.<\/p>\n
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It was Ryan\u2019s first video and bar the \u201clack of jerseys\u201d he was very pleased with it but the editing was a difficult process. Ryan explained: \u201cFirst I made an attempt at the GoPro software – it crashed on me. I had the whole video already made and it crashed and lost everything.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThen I downloaded Sony Vegas pro, very detailed , it\u2019s a fairly tough ol\u2019 thing but ploughed on with it and got it done. I easily sat down for five days and did it because three days were wasted on the last one. It was totally worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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So when did they film? Ryan explained: \u201cIf we knew we had a little window of two hours or an hour we\u2019d bring up the hurls with us and puck around for a bit just for the craic really – that was the main idea. It was just pucking about but it got serious. I got a dirty slap to the face and I was bleeding. My lip got split open by Tim Quinlan, the Clare lad.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Somehow I still think Tim got the worse deal.<\/p>\n
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#PrayForTim.<\/p>\n