Cork-based strength coach to build a gym for 5,500 West Bank refugees

Christmas stockings across Cork could be filled with handmade Palestinian goods imported from the West Bank if one of Cork’s foremost strength and conditioning coaches has his way.

Ainle Ó Cairealláin, founder and managing director of Aclaí strength training facility at Crawford Business Park on Bishop Street in Cork city, was so moved by what he saw on two visits to the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank earlier this year, that he felt he had to take action.