Ulster GAA’s Cúchulainn Initiative for 2022/23 concluded recently when the young participants from Lisburn and Limavady Cúchulainns visited Croke Park in Dublin.
The Community Relations Council supports Ulster GAA through the Core Funding Scheme.
The programme involves schools from different community backgrounds within the same town coming together to form a Cúchulainn team. As well as engaging in their weekly coaching sessions, the participants attended a teambuilding day, and a good relations workshop, as well as playing a blitz against local clubs in their area. The highlight of the programme was when they travelled to London to represent their schools and towns in the All-Britain Competition in September 2022.
The final element of the programme had the group complete a Level 1 Sports Leaders Qualification and they received their awards while in Croke Park from GAA President, Larry McCarthy, and Ulster GAA Secretary and CEO, Brian McAvoy.
The Limavady Cúchulainns for 2022 were boys from Limavady Grammar School, Limavady High School and St. Mary's Limavady.
The Lisburn Cúchulainns for 2022 were girls from St Patrick's Academy Lisburn and Fort Hill Integrated College.
The Cúchulainn Initiative is funded through the Executive Office Central Good Relations Programme.