To celebrate Centra’s fifth year as sponsor of the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship, Centra are bringing together the brightest stars of hurling this summer for fun community events in GAA clubs throughout the country.

On Saturday 5^th July, one of 16 community events will be travelling to Elverys MacHale Park with Galway hurling legend, Damien Hayes, and Clare captain Patrick Donnellan, on hand to give bright young stars from local Mayo clubs the chance to develop their game and learn from the best!

There will be plenty of fun to be had on the day as Centra aims to bring the whole community together through a special hurling skills session and a host of family entertainment including face painting, a hurling simulator to test your hurling skills, music and goodie bags.

To sign up for the event, register instore in a participating Centra store. Closing date for entries is Friday 27^th June. The event commences at 10am on Saturday 5^th July in MacHale Park. The hurling skills session is open to boys and girls of all standards from ages five to twelve.

This family fun event is supported by the following participating Centra stores; Roche’s Centra Ball, Murphy’s Centra Ballinrobe, Raftery’s Centra Bellaghy, Hoban’s Centra Westport The Quay, Hoban’s Centra Westport James Street, Munnelly’s Centra Crossmolina, O’Hara’s Centra Foxford, Hennigan’s Centra Ballindine, Higgin’s and Keegan’s Centra Kilkelly, casey’s Centra Ballina, Casey’s Centra Castlebar, Cuffe’s Centra Belmullet, Campbell’s Centra Killala, Mitchell’s Centra Moygownagh and Sheridan’s Centra Newport.

Centra, at the heart of communities throughout Ireland with 465 stores nationwide, is continuing to work with the GAA to promote and develop the game of hurling for all ages right across the country; in both developing and well established hurling counties.

For more information on Centra’s community events throughout the summer pop into your local Centra store, go to www.centra.ie or find ‘Centra Ireland’ on Facebook and Twitter.