David Gillick has joined forces with Fyffes once again in a quest to find ‘Ireland’s Fittest School 2025’.
Now in its fourth year, the purpose of the competition is to promote the importance of exercise, fitness and healthy eating amongst young people.
A central feature of the programme will be a series of exercise routines – recorded by Gillick, alongside Irish fitness trainer, Sharon Flanagan – which competing schools can adopt as part of their PE curriculum and against which performance will be measured and tracked online.
Running for 10 weeks from January 20th, the competition will see a new element introduced in which the top four schools from each province will compete head-to-head across four live regional qualifier events in April.
The top school from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster will then progress to May’s grand final, hosted by patrons Gillick and Flanagan, at which the prize package will include €8,000 worth of sports equipment.
The previous ‘Ireland’s Fittest School’ winners include Donegal’s Scoil Na Croise Naofa, Dunfanaghy (2022); Meath’s Gilson National School, Oldcastle (2023) and Waterford’s Touraneena National School (2024).
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Forming lifelong habits starts in schools and this competition is a valuable one for doing just that.
The participation rate of young people in sport and physical activity drops significantly from primary to secondary school so this is a key age range for improvement.
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The competition is open for entries until January 6th and gets underway two weeks later..
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