''Marooned'' is an hour-long

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documentary which followed the success of the

Westmeath senior football team The Westmeath county football team represents Westmeath in men's Gaelic football and is governed by Westmeath GAA, the county board of the Gaelic Athletic Association. The team competes in the three major annual inter-county competitions; the ...

that won the 2004 Leinster Senior Football Championship Final, the county's first ever title at senior level, under the guidance of

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. The documentary focused on Ó Sé who had taken over as Westmeath manager after departing

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in acrimonious circumstances. During ''Marooned'' Ó Sé admitted that managing Westmeath against his former team was "the hardest day of my life outside bereavements and things like that". Ó Sé did not inform the players that a documentary was being filmed. First shown on

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, RTÉ again aired ''Marooned'' in January 2013 following Ó Sé's death the previous month.

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also aired it twice over the Christmas period - 21 December at 21.45 and 29 December at 22.30. Pat Collins, known for films on the writers

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and

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, directed.

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* 2004 in Gaelic football Documentary films about Gaelic games Gaelic games on television Irish documentary television films Leinster Senior Football Championship Westmeath county football team {{sport-documentary-film-stub