HEALTHY CLUBS

SMOKE & VAPE FREE ZONE

Our Healthy Clubs Team are delighted to have received our Smoke & Vape free signs! Arklow Rocks is proud to be part of the Smoke & Vape free GAA pitch initiative and we kindly request that all our players, club members and visitors respect our request to not smoke or vape on our premises.

Anyone who wishes to quit and needs support please logon to www.quit.ie

Go raibh maith agat as gan tabac a chaitheamh.

SWIM IN PINK

As part of our Healthy Clubs initiative we are calling all our friends out there to join us at the Cove on the 13th of October at 11am. You can register to join us at www.swiminpink.ie or donate to support the cause at https://www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/Arklowrockparnells6542

Men, women, boys and girls are all welcome just remember to wear something PINK 🙂

WATER SAFETY TRAINING WITH RNLI

On the 17th of June the Healthy Club officers teamed up with the RNLI.

On the 17th of June the Healthy Club officers teamed up with the RNLI.

Jimmy Myler and his daughter Sinead volunteered their time to come along to the club house and host a water safety night to our older kids. The club wishes to thank Jimmy and Sinead for taking the time to help educate our boys and girls.

Our Healthy Club Programme: 2024

Our club initiative was launched during our Lá na Gclub blitz held for all local schools

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On Friday 26th April Arklow Rock Parnells in conjunction with their Healthy Clubs Team hosted Ciaran Carey of My Move counselling service and his team.

A Mental Health and drugs awareness talk was held at Glenart College Arklow in which Ciaran, Linda and George educated the attendees about the importance of good mental health and the poor decisions that can be made if your mental health is vulnerable.

Addiction of many kinds were spoke about including alcohol, pharmaceutical, illegal and prescription drugs, gambling and phone addictions which are on the increase. ARP was proud to host this talk and delighted with the young and older members of the community who attended.

Arklow Rock Parnells GAA Club signed up at the start of 2024 to become one of GAA’s Healthy Clubs. We are excited to be involved with such a wonderful initiative and look forward to hosting many activities to enhance our local community over the next 18 months.

Denise Pierce is our Health Officer and working with the Healthy Club committee started the year well organising a joint walk with another local GAA club AGB for New Years Day. It was a great success even with the wet conditions. Additionally we were able to collect a nice sum for a local charity Arklow Cancer Support at the same time.

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On the 11/02/24 we joined our friends in AGB again and had another community walk with our Rowing superstars. Our team are looking quite tiny beside them. It was a gorgeous day for a walk and even better we were able to support their very deserving charities.

On the 20/02/2024 we were very proud of our Healthy Clubs committee, when Denise, Sallyann and Julieann met with Lorraine Dunne from Wicklow County Council. Lorraine presented the club with free period products to help combat period poverty.

We are delighted to say free period products will be available in our toilets for any ladies that need them. Thanks again Wicklow County Council

We have many more activities planned so watch this Space 💚🤍💚🤍

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