Book your place for this webinar series by logging onto the website www.ecsligo.ie
Book your place for this webinar series by logging onto the website www.ecsligo.ie
Want to start exercising? Want to feel fitter & have more energy? Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership are delighted to pilot a Men on the Move Programme reaching all parts of Sligo, with online programmes based in the North Sligo, South Sligo, East Sligo and West Sligo, in conjunction with Sport Ireland, Health Service Executive and Sligo GAA’s Health and Well-being Committee. The Men on the Move Programme encourages men over the age of 35 years to get more active, have fun and improve your fitness levels through twice weekly activity online sessions. The 6 week programme offers men the chance to learn and take part in safe, effective exercises tailored to suit their needs, led by a supportive and encouraging SSRP instructor over zoom. No equipment is required, all that is needed is a safe and secure space.
The emphasis of the programme is on creating awareness and understanding of the importance of physical activity and the health benefits for not only physical health, but for mental health and well-being as well. SSRP is delighted to join forces with the Sligo GAA Health and Well-Being Committee to promote the programme with local clubs and target men in the community, so why not join in and book now as limited places apply.
Register Now for your area…
To book North Sligo Men on the Move
NOTE: North Sligo is currently fully booked but please refer to the other three sites for availability.
Including the following club areas:
St. Johns, Coolera/Strandhill, St. Marys, Calry/St.Josephs, Drumcliffe/Rosses Point, St. Molaise Gaels, Naomh Eoin
Programme begins on Tues 23rd March, for 6 weeks, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 7.00-7.45pm
Click here for North Sligo: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/north-sligo-men-on-the-move-tickets-142853728347
To book East Sligo Men on the Move
Including the following club areas:
Eastern Harps , Ballymote, Geevagh, Shamrock Gaels, St. Michaels, Owenmore Gaels, Ballisodare.
Programme begins on Mon 22nd March, for 6 weeks, on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7.00-7.45pm
Click here for East Sligo: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/east-sligo-men-on-the-move-tickets-144223742095
To book West Sligo Men on the Move
Including the following club areas:
St. Patricks, St. Farnans, Easkey John Gordan, Enniscrone/Kilglass, Castleconnor, Western Gaels.
Programme begins on Tues 23rd March, for 6 weeks, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8.00-8.45pm
Click here for West Sligo: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/west-sligo-men-on-the-move-tickets-144196025193
To book South Sligo Men on the Move
Including the following club areas:
Including the following club areas- Tourlestrane, Curry, Tubbercurry, Cloonacool, Coolaney/Mullinabreena, Bunninadden
Programme begins Monday 22nd March for 6 weeks, Mondays and Wednesdays from 8.00-8.45pm
Click here for South Sligo: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/south-sligo-men-on-the-move-programme-tickets-144388264185
Not sure which area you are in? Check out the map below:
As part of our Volunteer Support Initiative, Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership, Irish Athletics Boxing Association (IABA), and Sligo County Boxing Board have teamed up to roll out a Startbox At Home Programme starting this March for families in Sligo. The aim of the programme is to introduce children to the sport of Boxing through interactive online Boxing and Skipping sessions. In return for full commitment to the programme, each child will receive access to a 6 Week Programme, a Training Booklet to guide you through the programme and a Skipping Rope.
Programme Details…
Overview: Startbox At Home consists of a 6 week programme including 11 IABA Boxing specific videos and 12 skipping ‘exercise with me’ tutorial videos which will be sent to each participating family via email each week. Video links will be circulated each Monday at 10am via email, with the exception of Easter Monday, where it will be emailed on the Tuesday.
Registration: Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/sligo-startboxhome-tickets-144213481405
For More Information: Contact Sports Development Officer, Diane Middleton Cox at diane@sligosportandrecreation.ie
The Sligo Stronger for Longer 2021 programme is targeting men and women aged 50 years + in County Sligo who would like to engage in a supervised online fitness based physical activity programme. The programme will support and guide older people in Sligo to engage in a quality physical activity opportunity over an eight week period, which can help enhance their overall health, fitness and well being.
The programme will run twice weekly for 8 weeks ; Mondays & Wednesdays and Mondays & Fridays. The cost is €15.00 per person and anyone interested can sign up via our online Eventbrite link below.
For all enquiries please contact Shane Hayes at T: 086-6070086 or E: shane@sligosportandrecreation.ie
To register for the programme click HERE
Operation Transformation, in collaboration with DCU School of Health and Human Performance, have developed the Minimum Fitness Tests that will demonstrate the minimum fitness standard for your age group. These tests are designed to show you where you sit within the minimum standards of physical fitness and give you a target to aim for within your age bracket and gender. The Minimum Fitness Tests have five elements: Waistline Measurement Test , Press Up Test, Balance Test, Sit to Stand Test and the Endurance Test.
Click HERE to download the five Tests …
TikTok ‘Mic Drop’ Road Safety Competition
Road Safety offices from Local Authorities across the North West, Midlands and North East of the country have joined forces to launch the very first TikTok Mic Drop Road Safety competition. Held in conjunction with iRadio, TikTok Mic Drop is putting the spotlight on all age groups and their capacity to deliver a positive message to their peers and the wider community to communicate the importance of safe road user behaviour to ultimately save lives. The competition invites participants to create their own song or rap focussing on sharing the road safely and upload this onto TikTok tagging iRadio and mentioning their Local Authority.
In 2020 we regrettably saw a rise in the number of pedestrians killed on Irish roads, up 19% on 2019. We also saw increases in the number of cyclist and motorcyclist fatalities, up 25% and 6% respectively. This campaign wants to change this trend.
We want to empower people to have conversations with their friends about making safe choices when they are behind the wheel, on foot, or however they use the road. Entrants for the road safety competition are asked to focus on sharing the road with other road users be they cyclists, drivers, horse riders, motorcyclists or pedestrians.
This innovative challenge is being promoted by 11 local authorities (Kildare, Monaghan, Laois, Longford, Donegal, Cavan, Sligo, Mayo, Galway City Council, Leitrim and Westmeath) in partnership with iRadio with a prize fund of €5,500.
Prizes
There are individual prizes of €1,000 for the 4 best entries and two spot prizes, one of €1,000 and one of €500 which will be awarded to the best entry submitted by a school, sports team, club or community group. (Please adhere to Covid19 guidelines when recording.) While competing for the prize, video-makers will be able to highlight some of the most important road safety issues affecting their area in regards to respect and courtesy on the roads and pinpoint key ways that improvements can be made which is sure to benefit the local community.
Emer Concannon, A/ Director of Service said…. “A road safety film made by a young person will resonate deeply with their peers and send a strong message. We believe that the TikTok Mic Drop video competition will attract participation from students in primary and secondary schools, colleges, universities and even the mature residents of our counties can come on board with the local authorities and iRadio in making road safety a culture. The videos submitted for the contest will play an important role in educating the masses and promoting road safety.”
iRadio CEO Mark Cunning said….” We’re delighted to be involved with so many of the county councils in our region. Over the years we’ve had to air far too many stories on iRadio about the loss of young lives on our roads. There’s a difference between talking to young people and talking at them, it’s great to see such forward thinking from our County Councils and the Local Authority Road Safety Officers. Our aim is to educate though entertainment and interaction, I’m really looking forward to seeing you, the user, generate content from this initiative.”
How to Enter
The mechanism to enter this competition is through TikTok, and the listener must share their creation on their own platform and tag/mention @Thisisiradio and use their county’s hashtag. TikTok Mic Drop started on iRadio on March 8th.
The Closing Date for entries to this Competition is Wednesday 24th March, 2021 and iRadio will host the winners live on air on 26th March.
New Keep Well Walking Challenge launched to encourage people to walk for 30 minutes every day for three weeks
The Keep Well campaign is aimed at showing people of all ages how we can mind our own physical and mental health and wellbeing by adding healthy and helpful habits to our daily and weekly routine.
Sport Ireland, Get Ireland Walking and Healthy Ireland are encouraging people of all ages to walk into 2021 by taking part in the Keep Well Walking Challenge, which gets underway today.
Walking is the most accessible form of physical activity with no special equipment or locations required. Sport Ireland, Get Ireland Walking and Healthy Ireland are looking to get as many people as possible out and active for at least 30 minutes a day for the remaining 21 days of December, bringing a healthy habit forward to the New Year.
To support this, Get Ireland Walking has produced a new app that will allow users to keep a record of their walking and help all participants to stay motivated. The handy app will provide useful tips on advice on how to build walking into every day routines. It can be downloaded at https://www.getirelandwalking.ie/app/
As part of the 21-day campaign, well-known people from across Ireland will share their favourite walk of 2020, whether it is a socially distanced walk with a loved-one or simply a lunchtime escape from the bedroom office.
Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Catherine Martin TD said: “The benefits of physical activity are undisputed and walking is the most accessible form of physical activity available. I am delighted to say that I will be taking part in the Keep Well Walking Challenge and have already downloaded the app to help keep me motivated and track my progress through the month of December.”
Minister for State for Gaeltacht Affairs and Sport Jack Chambers TD added: “Walking is a brilliant form of physical activity that is accessible to all and despite everything that has happened it 2020 it was wonderful to see the numbers of people that have become involved in recreational walking – it’s a great sign for the health of the nation. The Keep Well Walking Challenge will help keep people active right up to the end of the year and we are delighted to be able to launch it today.”
Frank Feighan TD, Minister of State for Public Health and Wellbeing added: “I’m absolutely delighted to support this great initiative as part of the Healthy Ireland Keep Well campaign. I firmly believe that the ‘Get Ireland Walking App’, launched today, will be a very helpful tool in helping people to remember to get out and about and to do some physical activity every day. I encourage everyone to take on this challenge for the last 21 days of the year and make sure that they are starting the new year off on a good footing. So let’s all try and contact our friends and family members to help with the challenge, lace up those shoes, pull on that coat and get out walking”.
John Treacy, Chief Executive Sport Ireland commented: “It is hugely encouraging to see that the levels of recreational walking in Ireland are higher than ever. Physical activity is vital for the health of the nation, mental as well as physical, and one of the positives to come out of 2020 is that people now recognise the importance of physical activity as part of their daily lives. The Keep Well Walking Challenge and the new app will further help walking become part of people’s habits.”
Jason King, National Programme Manager Get Ireland Walking commented: “The benefits of walking cannot be underestimated both for individuals and the country as a whole. We really think that the Get Ireland Walking app will help keep people motivated through December, a time when people can become a little less active, and help them approach 2021 in a positive frame of mind and in good health – mental and physical.”
The Keep Well Walking Challenge is part of Keep Well. The Keep Well campaign is aimed at showing people of all ages how we can mind our own physical and mental health and wellbeing by adding healthy and helpful habits to our daily and weekly routines. It provides guidelines, information, and tips on how we can make a plan to do things that will help us keep well through the coming months.
https://www.getirelandwalking.ie/app/
Download the Programme Leaflet HERE
SSRP are delighted to support older people locally to be physically active at home this winter. With our partners in Ocean FM, the Ageing Well at Home Exercise programme is reaching out to older adults to keep physically and mentally well through exercise in their own homes. For a fun, safe, and inclusive home exercise programme, why not join us on ‘The Francie Boylan Show’ on Ocean FM every Wednesday at 11.20am starting 11th November. Keep well, keep moving!
Download the Programme Leaflet HERE
Supported by the Sligo Covid-19 Community Response Forum
Free phone 1800 292 765 Monday – Sunday from 8.00am to 8.00pm or text SLIGO to 50100 followed by your message to request a copy the leaflet Alternatively you can Email: covidsupport@sligococo.ie , healthyireland@sligococo.ie , or agefriendly@sligococo.ie to request a leaflet.
Bike Week usually takes place every year over a week in June but as with many events this year it was cancelled due to Covid-19. However in August, it was announced the week would be rescheduled to take place in September 2020 with strict Covid-19 protocols and all public health guidelines followed.
Bike Week, a national celebration and promotion of all that is great about bikes and cycling, was held over an extended week from the 19th to 27th September, with bike-themed events organised by local authorities, community groups and cycling groups throughout Ireland. Locally the week was co-ordinated by Sligo County Council and Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership with support from many local cycling clubs and community organisations.
The rescheduled time of year in autumn with its shorter evenings and Covid-19 restriction required a rethink of previous year’s events, but an exciting schedule was planned for Sligo, from the Dawn Bike to Breakfast to Sunset Cycles, there was something for all ages and abilities.
During Bike Week there was an opportunity to promote two fantastic new cycling prospects in Sligo. The first being the newly opened Coillte National Coolaney Mountain Bike Park in Coolaney. There was a lot of activity happening there with an introduction to Mountain Biking sessions for women, men, kids and teens and a full day Introduction to Mountain Biking hosted by Northwest Mountain Bike Club. These days were extremely popular and were fully booked out in no time. Coolaney MTB Park is a network of purpose-built single-track trails and forest roads that are designed for use by mountain bikes on waymarked circular routes between 3km and 22km in length. This is the first phase of an extensive trail system being built in the Ox Mountains near Coolaney and is very exciting for Sligo. Find out more information about the trails at https://www.coillte.ie/site/coolaney-mtb/
The second new cycling prospect for the county is the EuroVelo Route 1 –Atlantic Coast Route. Sligo County Council has recently developed a signed on road cycling route throughout the county as part of EuroVelo Route 1 –Atlantic Coast Route, so keep an eye out for the white signs with blue bikes. This was achieved as part of an EU Atlantic Area Project called AtlanticOnBike. The AtlanticOnBike project aims at achieving positive economic outcomes thanks to a transnational cycle tourism strategy based on the natural and cultural assets of the EuroVelo1, one of the sixteen long distance European cycle routes. This project expects to contribute to a low carbon tourism development. Its rationale is to stimulate, to structure, to promote and to take part in the development of a cycle touristic offer along EuroVelo 1. AtlanticOnBike should generate positive impacts on the local economy by increasing visits, boosting local economy and creating new activities and new jobs in the tourism sector. It will provide a new touristic offer accessible for a large range of the population but also an attractive leisure destination for locals. Get out there and enjoy!
One of the highlight events from last year ‘Bike Orienteering’ was back for 2020. This popular family friendly fun event which was held in Cleveragh Park closed the weeklong celebration of cycling this year. The safety of the bike trails at Cleveragh allows all levels of cyclists to take part; with a wide range of bikes on display from balance bikes, trikes, hand cycles and even top class mountain bikes. This event really highlighted how inclusive cycling can be as children and adults of all abilities and ages took part throughout the day. The orienteering course designed included staggered starts to prevent overlap of groups and was set up by Northwest Adventure Tours and proved to be very popular with all the participants. Even the local Garda Cycling unit, who called over to support the event got involved; some participants even got competitive on how fast they could complete the long orienteering course, with a record of 16 minutes on the day.
Another great day was organised by Sligo Cycling Campaign, a Bike NCT at Strandhill Peoples Market celebrating the School Cycling Bus by children and parents of Scoil Asicus Naofa, Strandhill.
Experienced road cyclists had an opportunity to compete for the Mooney Trophy in a Time Trail organised by Eire Óg Cycling Club on Sunday 27th, with Shane O Connell from Blarney Cycling Club taking it home in a time of 24 mins 58secs.
Bike Week showcased the vast opportunities Sligo has for cycling throughout the county with events held in Mullaghmore, Ballinafad, Enniscrone, Doorly Park, Ballygawley and Streedagh to name a few. Bike Week showed people can get out on their bikes any time of the day with Bike to Breakfast, Lunch time cycles and Sunset cycles, and highlighted the strong cycling community that exists with events hosted by local cycling clubs and community groups throughout the week. So if you haven’t already done so, it’s time to dust off your bike and get out and explore the endless possibilities Sligo has to offer!
All photos from the week can be view on our Facebook Photo Album Here
Over 1,000 school children take part in the SSRP SuperValu Athletics Fest ‘Staying Local’ 2020
The annual SuperValu Primary Schools Athletics Fest co-ordinated by Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership took place this year over a week-long event. The 2020 event coincided with European Week of Sport (23rd to 30th Sept) and was selected by Sport Ireland as one of its flagship events to celebrate the week-long programme of physical activity. This year saw the event ‘Staying Local’ with each school participating from their school grounds with SSRP Athletics officials timing the events in each school. The same great concept as years past, with the same great spirit but done in a new way!
It once again proved to be a huge success with a record number of schools and participants enjoying the activities. Over one thousand primary school children representing 36 primary schools from all over County Sligo took part. There were both relay races and individual races for both boys and girls. This gave children the chance to run as part of a team and it also provided a great opportunity for individual runners to take on the challenge of the longer 200m distance. The event is now in its sixteenth year and continues to grow in popularity with the focus being on participation, fun and enjoyment. Certificates of participation and event t-shirts were presented to all athletes in recognition of their sporting effort.
The event was kindly supported by SuperValu stores throughout County Sligo. During the week-long event, a team of volunteers from County Sligo Athletics Association, Athletics clubs throughout County Sligo and SSRP staff worked collectively to ensure the event went off smoothly.
Event co-ordinator, Deborah Sherlock of Sligo Sport and Recreation Partnership stated, “This year’s SSRP SuperValu Athletics Fest has proven to be a great success with a huge number of children taking part from across the County. The positive response and support for this year’s event in light of Covid-19 restrictions from the many schools and teachers is great to see and was really uplifting”. She added “The collective effort from Athletics clubs, event sponsor SuperValu and SSRP staff all contributed to a great sporting occasion for the young people involved.”
View the event photos HERE
Results for this years events are below in 1st, 2nd & 3rd:
Junior Girls 100 metre relay-
Junior Boys 100 metre relay-
Junior mixed 100 metre-
Senior boys 100 metre relay
Senior Girls 100 metre relay
Senior mixed 100m relay
Girls 200m
Boys 200m
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