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Goal for Peace visit to Strokestown House
Almost 180 students from the schools involved on the Goal for Peace project visited Strokestown Park House in County Roscommon over two days on the 22nd and 24th of October. This was the first group event for the students from the ten schools on the 2012/13 school year. The tour was split into [...]
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Carrick Town V. Fintona Swifts Friendly
Carrick Town F.C. played County Tyrone based Fintona Swifts F.C. in a cross border friendly game on Saturday 20th October in Leitrim Village. The friendly was organised by the International Fund for Ireland/Leitrim County Council funded Goal for Peace Project and it was the third game in a series of cross border friendly’s that took [...]
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Cross Border Football Matches
Two cross border pre-season friendly football matches took place in August involving clubs from Counties Leitrim and Fermanagh organised by the Goal for Peace Project. On Wednesday 8th of August, Manorhamilton Rangers were welcomed to Lisbellaw, Co. Fermanagh to take on the current Fermanagh & Western League Division One champions, Lisbellaw United. In an entertaining game, Lisbellaw [...]
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Schools take part in Bike Event
In June 2012 the ten primary schools from Leitrim and Fermanagh took part in a cycling sports day in Leitrim village as part of the International Fund for Ireland/Leitrim County Council funded Goal for Peace Project. On Wednesday 20th of June during National Bike Week, 150 children from eight Leitrim schools and two Fermanagh schools completed various [...]
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Arsenal in the Community Coaches visit Leitrim
The Goal for Peace Project, funded by the International Fund for Ireland (IFI) and Leitrim County Council welcomed two Arsenal in the Community coaches to Leitrim this week. This is the coaches’ second visit to the county having previously come to Leitrim in October 2011. Arsenal in the Community coaches spent three days with the project [...]
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Club Committee/Structure Workshop
The Goal For Peace project in association with the FAI are holding a Club Committee/Structures Workshop on Wednesday 16th of May from 7pm-9pm in Leitrim County Council, Carrick-on-Shannon. The workshop will focus on drawing on where their club is presently while also looking at the areas of Committee, Structure, Volunteer Roles and Club Constitution. This [...]
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Capital Funding/Facility Development Workshop
The Goal for Peace project in association with Leitrim Sports Partnership recently organised a Capital Funding/Facility Development Workshop in Carrick on Shannon. The workshop which took place in the Leitrim County Council building was held on 3rd April. The purpose of this workshop was to assist local sports clubs and community groups in putting together effective [...]
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Goal For Peace Goes to Zipit
On Monday March 26th and Wednesday March 28th the ten protestant and catholic schools that are involved in the Goal for Peace Project completed the Zipit Forest Adventure course in Lough Key Forest Park, Boyle, County Roscommon. The schools, eight from County Leitrim and two from County Fermanagh took part in the course over the [...]
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Schools Visit Ulster American Folk Park
The 160 children from the ten Protestant and Catholic primary schools in Leitrim and Fermanagh came together on the 17th November 2011 for the second Goal For Peace group event of the 2011/2012 year. The schools travelled to the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh, Co. Tyrone. The Folk Park gave an authentic glimpse of what [...]
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Goal for Peace April Sports Days