Ciara McDonnell: Cúl Camp serves to highlight lack of community in modern society

Between holiday allocation, parental leave, and a few kamikaze weeks of exchanging your children with friends in the hope that play dates might cover the work day, a week of Cúl Camp can feel like balm to the soul
Isn’t it poetic that it takes the GAA — a symbol of community — to highlight the lack of it? Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Isn’t it poetic that it takes the GAA — a symbol of community — to highlight the lack of it? Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

The GAA offered parents an excellent in-motion example of how stretched and stressed out we are in the last number of weeks.

Perfectly pitched in the middle of the Easter school holidays, when reality began to dawn that this was merely the dress rehearsal for the never-ending summer holidays looming ahead of us, they released registration for Cúl Camps 2023.

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