Earlier today, coaches from the Irish American Football Association introduced school children from the South Dublin County Council area to flag football. The event, run in the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght was part of the Sky Sports sponsored Living For Sport programme which runs in various cities around the UK and Ireland. Several Irish sporting bodies took part in the event in Tallaght.
Hundreds of local school children were given the opportunity to try flag football and receive instructions from IAFA coaches, Russell Kerley, Eoin O’Sullivan (both Drogheda) and Ken Farrell of the IAFA Schools Flag Programme.
The IAFA is currently recruiting a panel of schools flag coaches with a view to introducing the school flag football programme to the South Dublin area in the near future.