Entrepreneur and All-Ireland champ Philly McMahon takes on the Rinmaher Forest Trail in Portumna, County Galway on this episode of Tales and Trails. Philly describes what it was like growing up in Ballymun and tells us about how the school system didn’t work for him growing up. Having returned to education later in life to repeat the Leaving Cert and complete a degree in DCU, Philly has gone onto become a successful athlete and entrepreneur and now gives back to the community he grew up in.

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