Munster Council ‘doing work of 62 PE teachers’

The Munster Council of the GAA is doing the work of 62 full-time PE teachers in the province, according to a new report.

Independent consultants Focus Consulting have also found that GAA clubs across Munster are providing almost half of children’s recommended weekly exercise requirement.

The report, which was officially presented to the Munster Council last night, found there are about 58,000 underage players across the six Munster counties who are getting coaching from 10,500 trained coaches, all of them volunteers, and there are 2,400 weekly underage sessions for kids under eighteen.