St Audoen's girls football
Senator Ní Chuilinn celebrated St. Audoen's girls' football team winning their league while noting the school's lack of sporting facilities.
On Tuesday, I spoke in this House about the lack of sporting facilities in Dublin 8. I was speaking particularly about a school, St. Audoen's National School, in Dublin 8, that I visited on Tuesday morning. While it is important to point out what is wrong and the lack of access to facilities, it is really important to also point out and celebrate what is good. I got word this morning that the St. Audoen's girls' football team that I spoke about on Tuesday won their final league match yesterday against John Scottus in the 8C league of the FAI and they have won the league. A school with no pitch or facilities but just passion for football, brilliant teachers and brilliant players has risen to the top of its FAI league. I congratulate their captain, Amaya, and their principal, Geoff, and all of their teachers who are really ag snámh in aghaidh easa. With no facilities, but absolute passion and joy for sport and for football, they are really swimming against the tide down there. What it is doing for those children is absolutely brilliant. As I said on Tuesday, we are failing them in that we have no sports facilities for those children in the south-west inner city. Senators will be sick of me talking about it, because I will raising regularly in this House and in other fora as well. I congratulate St. Audoen's girls' football team for winning the league yesterday.