Gaelic gloves.
In a country where the weather as bad as Ireland’s you need them for the winter…and summer months.
So why not do it in style? Wear your gloves with pride when you take to the pitch, if you can’t be the best player on the pitch at least be the slickest.
Well, the good news is that we have found the most beautiful pair of gloves in Ireland and they’re for a good cause too.
The lads over at Murphy’s designed these gorgeous set of rainbow gloves for a campaign called #sharethegLOVE (Who doesn’t love a good play on words?!)
Murphy’s are selling the gloves for a very reasonable price of €13.45 with all proceeds going to Aware (a mental health charity) and The Rainbow Project (Offers help for LGBT+People).
The #sharethegLove campaign is a new campaign in the GAA that hopes to raise awareness for two charities and looks to tackle the underlying problems in the GAA.
The campaign aims to:
- Allow members of the LGBT community to feel accepted into the GAA community
- Create an environment among the Gaelic games community of support and freedom to each individual, irrespective of sexual identity
- Help tackle mental health issues and the availability to SPEAK OUT if they are feeling low
- Raise money and awareness for Aware and The Rainbow Project
Attitudes are changing in the GAA especially with two-time All-Star Donal Óg Cusack coming out in 2009 and the campaign hopes to bring a shift in attitudes another step further.
This is the first campaign of its kind in the GAA and was kickstarted by Ruairi Mooney and Maggie Hagan partners of the National Union of Students Northern Ireland in partnership of Sean Murphy of Muphy’s gloves.
A number of players were meant to don the gloves in last Sunday’s All-Ireland semi final clash between Dublin and Tyrone but the sunny weather ended up getting in the way of that so here’s hoping for a bit of rain for the All-Ireland final so we can see these beauties in action.
You can support the cause by purchasing a pair here or log onto murphysgaelicgloves.com
