Party Gaels of Ulster
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Anyone who knows a real live camog will know that they train their sweet asses off, but at the slightest mention of a party and a night on the tiles, they’ll knock down doors to get stillettoes on, the fake tan spray job and to squeeze into an outfit that fitted last summer at the height of the championship season but now it’s groaning at the seams after a good wintering. A few Tuesday nights on their shapely derriere watching Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives with a Dominos and some chardonnay hasn’t helped.
But for these girls, a party’s a party. That and the thought of a drop (or gallon of aftershocks) or a bit of jeiger bombing is sure to get them interested.
For the next six weeks all players, clubs and supporters of all Gaelic games across Ulster are being asked to organise parties at the end of Lent that will raise funds for Trocaire and for local women’s gaelic sports. Ann Summers and Tupperware are apparently bracing themselves for an influx of enquiries.
On camogie widower said: “Certainly I’d support the girls. It’s a great cause and if there’s a box in the house I’ll certainly put something in it to keep the girls happy.”
The serious bit of the whole event is the need to raise money for deprived children in the Third World. Trocaire’s regional manager, Eithne McNulty, referred to the fact that the number of hungry people in the world has passed the one billion mark – one in six of the entire population.
Ms McNulty said. “The bitter irony is that there is more than enough food in the world to feed our population. It’s not simply a question of supply and demand. Most people living in hunger are simply too poor to either grow or buy the food they need. This support from the Ulster Gaels comes at a crucial time for the world’s poor.”
Ulster Camogie’s chair, Catherine O’Hara, is one of the driving forces behind the new idea:
“As well as raising funds for our own young people and sport here at home, we really wanted to help support the wonderful work that Trocaire does in some of the world’s poorest countries. We are urging all Ulster clubs in all parts of the GAA family – football, hurling, camogie, handball and rounders – to get involved and ‘Party Against Poverty’ at the end of Lent.”
So if you’re out some night and you come upon a group of rowdy dishevelled yokes, tottering about in unfeasibly high heels, flashing a bit of well tanned flesh – you’ll know it’s the Camogie and Ladies Football Gaerls of Ulster – Partying Against Poverty. We wouldn’t have it any other way.
