Go Gusserane girls

GUSSERANE ARE the sole Wexford representatives in the latest Gaelic4Girls programme which will entail a hectic twelve-week programme. A total of 37 clubs have been selected to benefit from the scheme, spread across 23 counties in total.

They were selected from a huge number of entries, and can now plan to take part in the programme, beginning with the co-ordinator training that gets under way later this month.

The programme takes place over a twelve-week period and is suitable for girls aged between eight to twelve, with players of all abilities who are not currently registered to a club welcome.

The club receives training for their coaches and co-ordinator along with resources to market and promote their club’s participation in the programme.

The twelve-week programme will see players learn all of the skills of the game in a safe and fun environment before they are integrated with existing club players.

The 37 clubs that will take part in the programme will hope to implement the programme in March after their co-ordinators and coaches have been fully trained, and they will be invited to take part in the provincial blitzes that will take place in Leinster and Munster on June 17, Ulster on June 10, and Connacht on July 1.

‘There have been wonderful success stories like Shane O’Neill’s from Armagh that started as a Gaelic4Girls club and only two months ago they contested an All-Ireland Club final and have their first All Star in Aimee Mackin,’ Paula Prunty, National Development Manager of the L.G.F.A., said.

‘This is the difference that Gaelic4Girls can make to a club and we are very optimistic that these clubs can follow a similar trajectory,’ she added.