Multinational biotech company Amgen has confirmed it is to extend its partnership of south Dublin GAA club Cuala for another two years running to at least 2024.
Amgen will continue to sponsor the club’s Adult Men’s and Women’s Football and Camogie teams and will add the Adult Hurling teams from January 2023.
Amgen’s sponsorship of the club also extends to education and employment incentives, with the Dún Laoghaire-based biotech company providing one main bursary and four supplemental bursaries annually to Cuala students who are entering a third-level institution to study STEM subjects, manufacturing, supply chain management, health care or teaching science in school.
Building on Amgen’s commitment to support and inspire the next generation of STEM talent, the sponsorship agreement will also see the company provide a paid internship to a student from Cuala each year through the Amgen internship programme.
When it was first signed in 2019, the partnership was believed to be the first to wrap such education opportunities into a GAA Club agreement. It has clearly been working well.
Amgen is one of the 30 companies that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and was named recently among the world’s 25 Best Places to Work.
It operates a 37,000 square metre facility almost adjacent to one of Cuala’s pitches in Dun Laoghaire. In the 12 months to June 2022 it had annual global revenues of $26.36 billion.
In attendance at the sponsorship announcement today at Croke Park were a host of All-Ireland champions and GAA stars, including Cuala GAA and Dublin footballers Michael Fitzsimons; Martha Byrne; Jennifer Dunne and Rachel Hartnett and Cuala GAA and Dublin hurlers Jake Malone and Sean Brennan.
Paul Greene, Vice-President of Manufacturing, Amgen (pictured above with Dunne and O’Callaghan) Cuala President Johnny Sheanon as well as officials from Cuala GAA also attended the announcement at Croke Park.
“I am delighted to announce our title sponsorship of Cuala GAA,” said Greene.
“Amgen is committed to the communities where we operate, and we hope that our support for Cuala will make a real difference, providing opportunities for the players to excel on and off the pitch.”
“In addition to sponsoring one of Dublin’s most passionate, competitive GAA clubs, through our education and employment incentives, Amgen will also support and inspire a group of talented, motivated young people as they embark on their careers.”
