One of Ireland’s best-known Olympians, sprinter David Gillick has once again joined forces with Fyffes in a quest to find Ireland’s Fittest School 2025.
Now in its fourth year, the purpose of the competition is to promote the importance of exercise, fitness and healthy eating among young people. A central feature of the programme will be a series of exercise routines – recorded by Gillick, alongside Irish fitness trainer Sharon Flanagan – which competing schools can adopt as part of their PE curriculum and against which performance will be measured and tracked online.
Running for 10 weeks from January 20, the upcoming competition will see a new element introduced in which the top four schools from each province will compete head-to-head across four live regional qualifier events in April. The top school from Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster will then progress to May’s grand final, hosted by patrons Gillick and Flanagan, at which the prize package will include €8,000 worth of sports equipment.
The former athlete and popular broadcaster’s aim is to find a school whose focus on fitness will replicate the success of previous Ireland’s Fittest School winners – Donegal’s Scoil Na Croise Naofa, Dunfanaghy (2022 ); Meath’s Gilson National School, Oldcastle (2023 ) and Waterford’s Touraneena National School (2024 ).
School registrations open on January 6 and further details can be found online at www.fyffesfittestschool.ie
