Dr Crokes GAA Club, a recent Gold Award winner in the GAA Healthy Club Honours 2025-2027, has announced a detailed programme of community initiatives for the Christmas season.
The club continues to host Kathleen’s Gentle Mobility Exercises, a popular Age Action initiative led by retired PE teacher Kathleen Fitzgerald. The hour-long sessions, which cater to 40 adults every Tuesday, include music and social time with coffee and cake. While the winter programme concludes this week with a Christmas party, the spring sessions are scheduled to begin early in 2026.
Members of the Healthy Club committee are also carrying out visitations to all families in the community who were bereaved during 2025. During these visits, members deliver special Christmas cards and greetings designed by the club’s Juvenile Academy players.
The club is also maintaining its connection with the Crokes Diaspora by sending bespoke Christmas greeting cards to members living or working abroad who cannot return home for the holidays. This initiative allows local members to supply greetings to the Healthy Club to ensure personal links with home are re-established.
The schedule of events concludes with the Lap of Light Celebration on Saturday, December 27. Families who suffered a bereavement in 2025 are invited to assemble at Dr Crokes’ Park at 4:30 pm for a candlelight reflection with live music. This will be followed by laps of the grounds under the theme of “Darkness into Light,” with participants encouraged to wear high-visibility clothing and club colours while using torches or mobile phones for illumination. The evening will finish with refreshments and music in the clubhouse