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A Leitrim GAA club has released an emotional fundraising video

Jonathan Duane
Jonathan Duane

11:46 1 May 2018


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Warning: If you're an expat, this might make you cry!

Kiltubrid GAA Club in Leitrim has produced a nostalgic fundraising video showing how much the club means to their members across the world.

The aim of the campaign is to raise funds to renovate their playing facilities.

The video, entitled 'This is your land', will appeal to GAA lovers and expats everywhere.

It features stunning drone footage of Kiltubrid and photos of Kiltubrid natives living in far flung places such as Dallas, San Francisco, New York, Sydney, Perth, Abu Dhabi, Frankfurt and London.

The club is looking for the people of Kiltubrid, home and abroad, to come together to support their fundraising efforts.

The text accompanying the video reads:

"Like many rural communities in Ireland, a great number of Kiltubrid people have left their native parish for pastures new to the four corners of Ireland and the world in search of employment and adventure. It is the Irish way.

We have produced this video with the intention of conveying the true meaning of what this small patch of ground means to us as a community. For those no longer living in the parish, hopefully it invokes a sense of pleasant nostalgia and you can reminisce on the good times spent here.

We are calling out to our diaspora throughout the country and world to pull on the Kiltubrid jersey once again and assist us in creating a facility that we can be proud of, that the future generations of Kiltubrid men and women can be proud of. We need your help."

A donation page has been set up here.

Garry of The Lift spoke to the Chairperson of Kiltubrid GAA Club, Emmet Mahon, to find out more about the unique fundraiser.


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