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PICKLEBALL GET ACTIVE
Pickleball is already being played in Ireland. The Active
Retirement group in Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
started playing two years ago and just recently moved
to a fabulous new community centre in their village.
Michael visited their centre to find 4 courts busy with
Pickleball with people aged from 60 to 78. This group
meet twice a week.
The sport is also played in Dunlaoighre Rathdown. Rosslare Pickleball
Pickleball Ireland want to replicate this all over the
country.
In recent months the sport has been introduced to PdtiPuhhcmrakreibiisilftetnnuehptchPfneggbthoarSeiirianmcadfnetiwnonbhklrodnoleiudalceltpdeoioeen.hdsoosbsnnsRdmtf,upaaa.eheBotmuTtlitherllfnhicluhielnmaeowgptelrleo,nruhailnBayeryitnltttihesSrwdinyfavwlniatobglstofeaaemtfeioaoltfnneftyi1uernrdi,gmddnloan9drihRfe!mepstn6rteghsBpctod5ppaeeeraabmerndlfmiroaseanranthrtaossebdeoegWetuuriynfdanittcnsocahetmtMeodarlbsaaretntheaoactroceuieb,Ciullovfdnllipyag,cneSggatklhvbsaohltgJ!uheoooatleefunmuenedIyswrmdttlm,daelh.tiotpdattThiahwnhryseheoteuogvwrnsireso,o,d-rwldn. C
Kelly’s Resort Hotel in Rosslare who have a beautiful M
indoor tennis centre which now includes two Pickleball “Pickleball Ireland is here to help you. If your local group Y
courts. All equipment is supplied for guests of the hotel. wants to try Pickleball, get in touch with us and we will CM
The key to the successful introduction of this sport to organise a demonstration in your centre. All you need is MY
Active Retirement groups nationwide is to convince access to at least one badminton court. The best way to CY
people that they are capable. Most of us are capable of contact us is by email at getactive50@yahoo.ie , but you CMY
more than we think and the very fact that this sport is can also contact Michael Mc Daid at 0876776304.” K
so popular amongst seniors in the US and Multyfarnham
should demonstrate to anyone in doubt that this is a
sport for them.
Michael visited the ‘Go for Life’ games in Dublin recently
to demonstrate Pickleball to all participants, and was
delighted with the interest in the sport. “It was great to
see so many of our senior citizens try out Pickleball and
actually get very excited about it. It was commonly agreed
that a sport such as this could become very popular with
Ireland’s Active Retirement groups”
We all know that any activity that raises the heart rate
on a regular basis has long term health benefits. Age is
no reason to stop such activity. You can play Pickleball
at any age because it can be played at your own pace...
very leisurely or very competitively.
One inspiring
great-grandmother is
Isolde Mc Cullough who taught with the
fitness league for 70 years
www.thefitnessleague.ie
Isoldes’ Exercise Book “Never Too Late”
is raising money for the
Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland
it is available on their
website: www.cfireland.ie
or tel: 01-4962433
Active Retirement Classes in Dublin and surrounding areas
78 Active Retirement Ireland www.activeirl.ie
Pickleball is already being played in Ireland. The Active
Retirement group in Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
started playing two years ago and just recently moved
to a fabulous new community centre in their village.
Michael visited their centre to find 4 courts busy with
Pickleball with people aged from 60 to 78. This group
meet twice a week.
The sport is also played in Dunlaoighre Rathdown. Rosslare Pickleball
Pickleball Ireland want to replicate this all over the
country.
In recent months the sport has been introduced to PdtiPuhhcmrakreibiisilftetnnuehptchPfneggbthoarSeiirianmcadfnetiwnonbhklrodnoleiudalceltpdeoioeen.hdsoosbsnnsRdmtf,upaaa.eheBotmuTtlitherllfnhicluhielnmaeowgptelrleo,nruhailnBayeryitnltttihesSrwdinyfavwlniatobglstofeaaemtfeioaoltfnneftyi1uernrdi,gmddnloan9drihRfe!mepstn6rteghsBpctod5ppaeeeraabmerndlfmiroaseanranthrtaossebdeoegWetuuriynfdanittcnsocahetmtMeodarlbsaaretntheaoactroceuieb,Ciullovfdnllipyag,cneSggatklhvbsaohltgJ!uheoooatleefunmuenedIyswrmdttlm,daelh.tiotpdattThiahwnhryseheoteuogvwrnsireso,o,d-rwldn. C
Kelly’s Resort Hotel in Rosslare who have a beautiful M
indoor tennis centre which now includes two Pickleball “Pickleball Ireland is here to help you. If your local group Y
courts. All equipment is supplied for guests of the hotel. wants to try Pickleball, get in touch with us and we will CM
The key to the successful introduction of this sport to organise a demonstration in your centre. All you need is MY
Active Retirement groups nationwide is to convince access to at least one badminton court. The best way to CY
people that they are capable. Most of us are capable of contact us is by email at getactive50@yahoo.ie , but you CMY
more than we think and the very fact that this sport is can also contact Michael Mc Daid at 0876776304.” K
so popular amongst seniors in the US and Multyfarnham
should demonstrate to anyone in doubt that this is a
sport for them.
Michael visited the ‘Go for Life’ games in Dublin recently
to demonstrate Pickleball to all participants, and was
delighted with the interest in the sport. “It was great to
see so many of our senior citizens try out Pickleball and
actually get very excited about it. It was commonly agreed
that a sport such as this could become very popular with
Ireland’s Active Retirement groups”
We all know that any activity that raises the heart rate
on a regular basis has long term health benefits. Age is
no reason to stop such activity. You can play Pickleball
at any age because it can be played at your own pace...
very leisurely or very competitively.
One inspiring
great-grandmother is
Isolde Mc Cullough who taught with the
fitness league for 70 years
www.thefitnessleague.ie
Isoldes’ Exercise Book “Never Too Late”
is raising money for the
Cystic Fibrosis Association of Ireland
it is available on their
website: www.cfireland.ie
or tel: 01-4962433
Active Retirement Classes in Dublin and surrounding areas
78 Active Retirement Ireland www.activeirl.ie
