The Beacon Hospital has signed a major new partnership with Dublin Gaelic Games club Kilmacud Crokes.
The healthcare facility only a few kilometres from Kilmacud’s Stillorgan base has become the main Club sponsor of the largest GAA club in Ireland for a period of three years, with the Kilmacud Crokes club jersey undergoing its first redesign in over a decade.
The sponsorship will be brought to life under the theme of Passion Lives Here, which is about fostering and supporting the determination, dedication and support it takes to develop and bring local teams to greatness not just on the pitch, but also off it.
Part of the partnership will include access to the Beacon’s state-of-the-art sports lab, physiotherapists, sports physiologists and orthopaedic and sports medicine specialists.
The club fields 140 teams, with 5,700 players and members, as well as many local schools and groups part of the Crokes community.
The club completed a double in the 2021 Go Ahead Dublin GAA Senior Hurling and Football Championships, making it all the way to the AIB Club Championship Final against Kilcoo before falling to a last-minute goal.
“This sponsorship is all about passion,” said Beacon Hospital CEO Michael Cullen.
“A passion for health and wellbeing. A passion for teamwork. A passion for our local community along with a passion for fostering greatness. We share this passion with Kilmacud Crokes, making joining forces with them an easy and exciting decision for us.”
“We have been delighted to meet and work with so many dedicated professionals volunteering their time and skillset to give back to the club at the heart of their community.”
“Passion Lives Here will see us using our position as one of Ireland’s leading and most technologically advanced hospitals to share our expertise and knowledge in health and wellbeing. In sport and in medicine, it is passion that keeps us focused and dedicated to the cause.”
“The relationship we are celebrating today is such a fitting one,” added Kilmacud Crokes Chair Kevin Foley.
“Kilmacud Crokes GAA, Camogie and Ladies Football Club is a community volunteer organisation focused on health and wellbeing through sport.”
“With our grassroots in the community of Kilmacud, Stillorgan, Mount Merrion, Dundrum and surrounding areas, Beacon Hospital was a perfect fit for us to partner up with. Passion lives here in our club. Passion for health and wellbeing is a key agenda we share with our friends and now sponsors, Beacon Hospital.”
