Club & Volunteer Awards Launch

Celebrating the club, valuing the volunteer is the message in this, the seventh year of The Irish News Club & Volunteer Awards. The awards scheme continues to evolve to match the different times and challenges with awards available for clubs, volunteers and schools.

An addition this year is the ‘125 Special Recognition Award’ to mark this historic anniversary of the GAA, with the winner of this special category chosen from all entries received.

Tom Daly, Ulster Council President, commented: “The Ulster Council are delighted to once again endorse and support The Irish News Club and Volunteer Awards. The awards have become a permanent fixture in the GAA calendar and I commend The Irish News for their ongoing commitment to the GAA at all levels.

“I would encourage as many clubs and schools as possible to enter the various categories which have a special significance in 2009, the 125th anniversary year of the GAA.”

Once again, all sizes of clubs have the opportunity for their good work to be recognised, in Small, Medium, and Large categories, and volunteers will also be applauded in those three categories. Schools’ awards will once more go those at both primary and second level.

Irish News editor Noel Doran said: ‘This initiative always receives a fantastic response from our clubs and schools of all sizes, and it is great to be able to offer recognition to these key sectors.”

Entry packs can be obtained by post from The Irish News Marketing Department or by emailing requests to club awards@irishnews.com and official application forms can also be downloaded from www.irishnews.com/clubawards

This year, The Irish News Club & Volunteer Awards will be run in partnership with the Ulster Council GAA, O’Neills, Cardiac Risk in the Young, and the Mooney Hotel Group.