Bornacoola GAA Healthy Club

Great Healthy Clubs training session delivered by SARI - Sport Against Racism Ireland on team work, fair play and respect to our Rinn Gaels and Bornacoola underage players.

Despite the rain trying to ruin the evening, the SARI team still managed to deliver a great workshop.

Thanks a million to all the players and coaches that turned up to this important event and to the SARI team on delivering a very informative and worthwhile workshop. ⚫️🟡🟢

🏐🏐🏐REMINDER🏐🏐🏐

Bornacoola GAA are currently one of the groups participating in Tesco Ck on Shannon’s Community Support fund. Please remember if shopping in Tesco to vote for us by placing your blue tokens in the Bornacoola GAA drum. We’re currently in week 2 of a 12 week stint so keep voting in order for us to receive more of the available funding. Chairman Pat Farrell here photographed with John Dowling of Tesco Ck on Shannon. Many thanks from the club to John for his support with this programme

Hi all, as part of our Healthy Clubs initiative we are running a training session around team work, fairplay and respect at Bornacoola pitch for the following age groups;

U 12, U14, U16 Bornacoola Girls at 6 pm

U13, U15, U17 s Rinn Gaels at 7.30 pm

The training is an interactive workshop which will take place on Tuesday 20th of June on the pitch and will be delivered by Sari as recommended by Croke Park. The session will last for 1 hour 30 minutes and is for players and coaches.

We would encourage all age groups to attend this important workshop 😁

🟡On behalf of Bornacoola GAA Club and the Healthy Club Committee, we would like to thank everyone that came out this morning to attend our Darkness Into Light walk for Pieta House.

🟡This was our second year to run this event and had just over 125 people take part, which was up on last years numbers which was great to see.

🟡We would firstly like to thank Pat and his team of stewards for leading out the group and making sure it was a safe walk for all involved.

🟡A huge pat on the back goes to Fiona, Rosari and Mairead who supplied, cooked and baked all the hot food, cakes, scones, biscuits, fruit and teas and coffees. You name it, we had it.
Also, a big thank you to Deirdre who supplied us with trays of sandwiches for the morning.

🟡Not to forget what the morning is about. In the current climate anxiety, depression and mental health issues are affecting more and more people. Su***de and self-harm is a major issue and help is out there and for those that are struggling. Start by visiting Pieta. Ending Su***de. or www.pieta.ie or their 24 free phone number 1800 247 247.

🟡Again thanks a million to all who participated and we encourage more to join us again in 2024.

🟡🟡 Don’t forget to join us this coming Saturday morning the 6th of May at 4:15am at Bornacoola GAA grounds in Dromod for our Darkness into Light walk for Pieta house.

This is a great fundraising event to help people impacted by su***de and self harm.

We hope to see everyone from the local community and surrounding areas and parishes for this great event.

There will be loads of delicious refreshments with tea and coffee served on return from the walk.

Please spread the word and don’t forget to set those alarms 🟡🟡

On Wednesday we successfully completed the Every step counts challenge in association with Irish Life and the GAA.
We had 72 people registered from our club and we finished 21st out of 112 registered GAA clubs from Connaught.

We recorded just over 11,500 kms which is the equivalent of walking to Croke Park and back from Bornacoola GAA pitch 40 times!!
Well done to all involved and I also want to thank our walkers who came out each week of the challenge 🖤🧡

**Reminder**

Week 4 of our walk in relation to the Irish Life steps challenge takes place from 7:30 every Thursday evening from the club house in Dromod.

Quick reminder, week 3 of our walk in relation to the Irish Life steps challenge takes place from 7:30 every Thursday evening from the club house in Dromod.

Everybody is more then welcome to come along!!

***Due to inclement weather tonight's Walk is rescheduled for next Monday 16th at 7.30pm and will continue then from Thursday 19th at 7.30pm.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

We still need more numbers so would encourage people to sign up and download the Irish Life App and sign to Bornacoola GAA page on the Connacht section of the steps challenge.***

In conjunction with the Irish life steps challenge, we will be running a walking evening every Thursday for the next 6 weeks at 7:30 from the GAA grounds.

We will have our own little in house competition as well with a prize for the person with the most steps completed. You can simply download the Irish Life app onto your phone and join the Bornacoola group on the app to record your individual step count.

Let’s hope everyone participates and let out our competitive sides!! ⚫️🟠

**Fancy a challenge**

Bornacoola GAA will be participating in the Irish life steps challenge for 2023 that will commence on January 11th.

To sign up, download the my life by Irish life app.
Select challenges
Select join
Search for Bornacoola GAA in Connaught section.

Let try and get as many people signed up and get them walking/running shoes on 🏃🏼

Very interesting stories shared at the latest healthy club’s conference held in Croke Park at the weekend.
Oisin McConville especially giving a very interesting talk about his battle with a gambling addiction.

As they always say, only the best footballers get to hold that Sam Maguire Cup 😉
Healthy Ireland Irish Life

As part of our healthy clubs initiative, Bornacoola GAA grounds have now become a smoke and v**e free zone.
Smoking and va**ng is now prohibited at all times on our grounds.
This is going to protect all of our members and supporters against the effects of first and second hand smoke.
We launched our smoke and v**e free grounds with the help of 100+ kids who were taking part in the GAA cúl camps.
Also a huge thanks to Irish Life for sponsoring our signage which is now erected around the grounds.
Healthy Ireland You Can Quit

Promises to be a great day, everybody is more than welcome 🖤🧡

Well done and thanks very much to all who took part in the DIL 5km walk on Saturday morning.

Special thanks to Rosari, Mairead and Fiona for organising the refreshments after.

With every great event there is a great team behind it. Special thanks to our healthy club team Pat, Suzanne, Sheila, Sean and Jason for their help with organising the event.

Also with the event we had the launch of our healthy club initiative 🖤🧡

Welcome to our new Bornacoola GAA Healthy Club page 🖤🧡