23/02/2022
👏👏 great words form John Cregan thanks for your kind words 💚
Message from John Cregan Chairperson Limerick GAA endorsing upcoming talk by Ciarán Carey
Athea GAA Club is a shining example of how a GAA club in today’s world can go beyond what is the normal comfort zone of a GAA club and simply confine activities to the playing of our national games. In an effort to extend their activities and provide additional community support, Athea GAA have powered ahead and formed the “Healthy Athea Club”.
Since its inception “Healthy Athea” has been actively supporting and indeed encouraging both GAA members and of course members of the wider community to become more health conscious by way of taking exercise in the safe environment of the recently completed walking track. The emphasis placed on and the facilities provided to ensure that we can improve our physical health now needs to be balanced with an emphasis on the importance of good mental health. To this end I very much welcome and commend “Healthy Athea”
for turning their attention to providing a forum and thus a wonderful opportunity, by way of this upcoming presentation, to their own community and beyond, to gain a better understanding of the many difficult issues that are associated with poor mental health and addiction. Unfortunately these difficult issues exist sometimes silently and perhaps invisibly in the lives of far too many in our communities, and every positive initiative such as this to reach out to both individuals and families is to be greatly welcomed. Ciaran Carey is better equipped than most through his own story in life to educate and advise those who attend on these matters and I know his presentation on the night will not disappoint.