125 Not So Cool at the Cúl Camps
Talking Balls Comments
That means the mammies have time to get the hair done, bake buns, or whatever it is they do. All we know is that if the Garda put a speed gun on the cars racing out of a pitch car park after parents deposit the children they would make a killing on points and Euros!
We are told there are over 83,000 children will attend the Vhi GAA Cúl Camps throughout the summer – there are camps taking place in almost every GAA club around the country and in over 20 overseas GAA clubs, in the US (New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia), Canada (Toronto), the UK (London, Scotland, Bristol, Birmingham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Herefordshire) and it is hoped to have a camp in Europe (Brittany, France) also.
As the GAA celebrates 125 this mass movement of exercise for the young people of Ireland is a tribute to the effectiveness and organisation of the GAA. However one parent has contacted Talking Balls to point out a startling omission.
Fiona McCabe tells us that she dropped he boys off at the camp (no doubt duly accelerating out the gate at top speed with the other mammies) where they had a great time hurling and playing football. But she noticed that the Cúl Camp organisation seems to be the only unit within the GAA that has no mention of the 125 year celebration. The kit isn’t branded, the signs aren’t branded. It’s as if in the land of the Club Camp the previous 125 years have been forgotten.
We checked out the website, press notices and indeed the kit for ourselves and Fiona’s right. This is a startling error of omission. Maybe kids don’t give a damn about the 125 but they certainly won’t if we don’t tell them about. With clubs encouraged to develop their La na gClub and the primatry schools day, it seems this has slipped under the radar.
Cúl in every way then except for the 125. Get on the bike lads, same as everyone else.
