Travellers in Sport
The Travellers in Sport working group of Offaly Sports Partnership advanced plans to support the increased participation of Travellers in sport.
Offaly Sports Partnership wishes to acknowledge the commitment and dedication of the members of the working group and the organisations that they represented in bringing this project to fruition. They included Séan O'Brien FÁS, Bridget McInerney Traveller Information Officer Offaly County Council, Fergal Fox HSE Traveller Health Unit, Donna Quinn Tullamore Wider Options, Liam McGlynn Offaly Outreach Education Project, Eileen Connolly Jobs Facilitator Department of Social and Family Affairs, Leanne Greville Offaly Cohesion Working Group, and Thomas McDonagh Tullamore Traveller Movement. This working group has been disbanded but increasing the participation of Travellers in sport remains a priority for the Partnership.
For more information on the Travellers in Sport programme, contact Olivia Murphy (administrator, Offaly Sports Partnership) on 057 93 57462 or by email.
Travellers in sport 2010
Following the Partnership's 2010 grant submission to the ISC in which we requested that we be permitted to use carryover funds from programmes which were funded but not completed in previous years (e.g. Travellers in sport), and the ISC's permission to do so, a new...
Travellers in sport 2009
The Travellers in Sport Coordinator Claire Quinn managed a programme of work placement for trainees that completed the accredited training programme in 2008.
Funding was received from the Irish Sports Council towards two targeted actions to be led out by the...
Travellers in sport 2008
Support was secured from the Health Services Executive Traveller Health Unit, Tullamore Wider Options and the Offaly Vocational Education Committee to deliver a physical activity tutor training programme for members of the Traveller community in Offaly.
Travellers in sport 2007
Offaly Sports Partnership established a Travellers in Sport working group in 2007 with the remit of developing actions and strategies to increase Traveller participation in sport and physical activity.
This group established a two pronged strategy of:...