15aDONEGAL DEMOCRAT, 3rd July 2008

Sligo to Letterkenny charity cycleThe annual Sligo to Letterkenny

charity cycle in aid of Cancerresearch take place this Sunday, 6thJuly 2008. Organised by Mr PaddyDelap of Clarke’s Newsagents inLetterkenny, this event is gettingbigger and better every year.

This event has done more forcycling in the North West of Irelandthan any club could every dream,most notably introducing youngpeople such as Philip Deignam intothe sport.

For the past number of years MrPaddy Delap and his many friendsin Letterkenny have organised amost successful cycling event inDonegal. In the region of over 100cyclists take part each year and todate over €300,000 has been raisedfor Cancer Research. The cycle isfrom Sligo to Letterkenny, approxi-mately 75 miles. Cyclists will betransported to Sligo and the cycle isfrom Sligo to Letterkenny. Each par-ticipant will be presented with a t-shirt, and certificates will bepresented at the finish line. Eachparticipant will then be entered in adraw for three travel vouchers worth€150 each. Please join with us again

this year and if you have any friendsor colleagues who may be interest-ed, ask them to join in too.

Anyone doing this event and whoare travelling on the coach providedare please asked to contact Paddy onthe number below before Saturdayevening to give him an idea of num-

bers.Further details may be had from:-

Mr Paddy Delap, C/O ClarkesNewsagent, Lr Main Street,Letterkenny, Co Donegal. Tel:-07491-22240 or from The IrishCancer Society office at callsave1850 606060.

Donegal youths toplay football for peace

Over 1,000 young people willbenefit from an exciting cross-bor-der community relations footballprogramme - Football4Peace (F4P)Ireland - which is to receiveInternational Fund for Irelandsupport of over €500,000.

Commenting on the initiative,Paddy Harte from the IFI, PaddyHarte said: “I am delighted thatthe Board of the InternationalFund has agreed to support thisvery exciting project. It is throughparticipation in initiatives like thisthat significant progress can bemade in promoting good relations.I am looking forward to workingwith IRDL and both the IFA andFIA and seeing the undoubtedpositive impact this programmewill have on the young partici-pants over the life of the pro-gramme.”

The concept behind F4P is aninternational community relationsproject based in Israel for the pastsix years which has been devel-

oped by the University of Brightonwith the support of the BritishCouncil Israel and the IsraeliSports Authority. In essence, themodel involves training all of thecoaches involved in the implemen-tation (Israeli, Palestinian, and UKcoaches) in exercises that coverthe main elements of the project(fair play, inclusion, respect, neu-trality, trust, responsibility, andequity). The coaching sessions forthe young people do not concen-trate on the mainstream coachingpoints. While each session doesfollow the same coaching structureof planning a session with thefamiliar headings for the coachingto be structured around (ballfamiliarity, passing and receiving,dribbling, and attacking skills) theemphasis is on community rela-tions and peace-building.

This three year programmewhich targets young people is ajoint venture between InishowenRural Development, the I. F.A. and

the F.A.I aims at using football as ameans to promote good communi-ty relations through cross-borderand cross-community partner-ships. The University of Brightonwill forge links with the 3rd levelinstitutions in the North-West toensure the core values of the F4Pmodel are embedded in the region.

Over 1,000 children will be intro-duced to community relations inthe three year period thereby pro-mote positive relations, raiseawareness of racism and sectarian-ism and promote healthy livingamongst marginalized groups.Through the CoachesDevelopment section the adultsinvolved in the clubs will alsoexperience the community rela-tions based values and it will startto aid in cultural changes at thislevel. Over 40 adults in influentialpositions with young people willbe introduced to community rela-tions in the three year period. Donegal brokers attend

Friends First seminarDonegal’s

leadingbrokers

attended aninvestment seminarhosted by FriendsFirst in the RadissonSAS hotel inLetterkenny recently.

Grainne Alexander,Managing Director ofone of Europe’s lead-ing Asset Managers,F&C Investments andJim Power, ChiefEconomist, FriendsFirst discussed thefacts of Ireland’s econ-omy andoutlined investmentopportunities for thefuture in what is avery challenging mar-ket.

This was one of aseries of seminarsFriends First isholding throughoutthe year.

Picitured at the Friends First conference for brokers, organised by Friends First in the Radisson SAShotel in Letterkenny are front row (l-r) Cathy Mc Gaughey Account Executive Friends First, John Corr,Regional Sales Manager, Friends First. Back row (l-r) Pauric Gallen,Patrick Mc Brearty, Joyce McMullin and David Mc Geough . Photo by Gerard Mc

Grainne Alexander, Managing Director, F&C addresses the conference for brokers, organised byFriends First in the Radisson SAS hotel in Letterkenny. Photo by Gerard McHugh

Cyclists taking part in last year’s charity event.

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