Douglas GAA Twitter – When completely coordinated, Douglas will turn into the biggest GAA Club in Munster, with more than 3,000 individuals, 150 groups, and 300 mentors
Plug players Kevin Flahive, Katrina Mackey, Julia White, and Shane Kingston at the dispatch of the Douglas GAA flinging and football, camogie, and women football three-year club improvement plan. Picture: Dan Linehan
On Sunday, the Douglas senior footballers face Nemo in a crunch tie that will be streamed live by the Irish Examiner meaning to follow their throwers into the knockout phase of the area title.
Off the field, the club is gathering speed as well.
Between area stars from all sides of the Douglas, GAA family met up last Saturday as their clubs dispatched a brought-together improvement plan that is set to cost around €2m throughout the following three years.
Douglas is the most recent GAA unit advancing the ‘One Club’ model, with the throwing and football, women football, and camogie clubs pursuing joining under one umbrella. When completely coordinated, Douglas will turn into the biggest GAA Club in Munster, with more than 3,000 individuals, 150 groups, and 300 mentors.
“It’s a good idea to be one family,” says Brendan Murray, the seat of the Club Development Plan Working Group. “It will be a gigantic advantage to drive everything forward.
“Families will not need to join every one of the three clubs, causing additional expenses. What’s more, it will be the equivalent gathering pledges exertion towards the improvement plan. Individuals of the local area will realize that cash brought is being put up in their children and girls.
“There are things to be worked out, however, there’s a functioning gathering set up, and the will is there to get it going from individuals in every one of the clubs. Also, that is undeniably significant. We need the club to be an energetic and comprehensive social and social center point locally.”
Behind the Cork stars on the four contributes the core of the town, there was a much more striking representation of solidarity in numbers, with more than 800 young men and young ladies playing in the club’s yearly football road association finals the most youthful among them banner young men and young ladies for a feeling of collaboration.
