Community in Darndale on board with project to bring GAA to the area

With no recent history of camogie, Gaelic football, hurling or ladies football, the northside suburbs of Darndale and Priorswood have long been barren territory for the GAA

PROJECT: As part of its campaign to bring Gaelic games to Darndale, a place with no recent history of camogie, Gaelic football, hurling or ladies football, O’Toole’s GAA Club has organised nurseries for four to seven year-olds at the local community centre. Pic: Fintan Clarke.

If you were asked to name an area of Dublin where primary school children struggled to name GAA icons such as Stephen Cluxton or Ciarán Kilkenny, you would probably opt for a southside rugby enclave.

But with no recent history of camogie, Gaelic football, hurling or ladies football, the adjoining northside suburbs of Darndale and Priorswood have long been barren territory for the GAA.