Bellefield Beat with Maria Nolan

January at Bellefield GAA has been all about walking, casting off those winter blues and shedding those festive pounds, and Rapparees/Starlights, wasting no time, began our healthy, get fit approach to 2023 with our annual Michael Foley Pudding Run on St. Stephen’s Day and then went straight into the Ireland Lights Up Campaign in association with Operation Transformation, Sport Ireland, Healthy Ireland, and the GAA.

We have been delighted with the amazing turn-out every Tuesday and Friday evening from 7pm.

It’s a marvellous opportunity to meet up with family, friends, and teammates, and put some miles on those legs in a perfectly safe environment.

It’s family friendly, for all age groups, well lit and accompanied by some good walking music thanks in the main to Stephen Murphy and Nicola Warren, chief organisers.

As part of the Ireland Lights Up initiative, the club has joined the Leinster GAA Step Challenge, the goal being for our walkers to complete 4,000km as a Club beginning on January 11th for five weeks.

If we pass this target, the club is in with a chance of winning substantial O’Neill’s vouchers.

Steps must be tracked using the Irish Life MyLife App.

The app can be synced to a device such as Fitbit, Garmin, etc.

You don’t have to attend the Ireland Lights Up walks in Bellefield to participate, any walking you do over the next couple of weeks counts, although we would love to see you join us at Bellefield on Tuesdays and Fridays at 7pm.

Come on everyone, let’s start walking up that leader board.

After a late start, the club are now in 27th position on the leader board out of a total of 247 clubs participating.

So keep walking everyone and new steppers are most welcome.

Our U/10s and U/12s are back training every Wednesday evening from 6.30pm at Enniscorthy CBS all weather pitch.

With 45 to 50 chaps in attendance most evenings, we are delighted to have so many members willing to give their time to pass the skills and love of hurling and football on to the next generation, and we would like to say a big thank you to them all and to Enniscorthy CBS for the use of their facilities.

A club can never have too many chaps, so please come along and join us on Wednesday evenings from 6.30pm.

Our Ladies Adult and Minor grades are back training on Sunday mornings from 10.30 at Enniscorthy athletic track getting in shape for the 2023 season.

Our weekly Bingo is at the clubhouse every Wednesday night from 8pm and tickets for our weekly Lotto can be purchased online, in pubs around the town, or from any member of Rapparees/Starlights.

It`s full steam ahead at Bellefield with our new and exciting development ‘Building Bellefield’ and we would like to thank all who bought tickets for our Bonanza Christmas Draw and those who have purchased a slot on our Patron Wall, which will be an attractive and poignant feature of our new initiative.

We are a progressive, innovative, all-inclusive club, our gates are always open, and all are welcome, so grab and friend and come along and join us, you won’t regret it.