Fuel Your Body for Sports
Do we make the right choices when it comes to food? Our body is like a car, it needs fuel. If we fail to fuel our body with the right energy it won’t perform as well as it can. Our ambassador David Gillick answers this and a lot more questions directly from you during his visits […]
Why is Water so Special?
How much water should we drink? Our ambassador David Gillick answered to this and a lot more questions directly from you when he visited Scoil Santain and St Kevin’s Boys NS in South Dublin this week. We have some nice little videos and some cool pictures, which we will post on our social media and […]
It’s More Than Winning!
Sport is more than just winning! This is the message for Week 5 and our ambassador David Gillick has been sharing it with schools from Fingal, Dublin City and South Dublin. We have already shared some nice little videos and some cool pictures, which you can also find on our social media and website. We’ve […]
Let’s Be Social!
Our ambassador David Gillick has been busy visiting schools. Yes, he might visit your school too so get ready! In the past two weeks he visited two schools in Dublin City, Scoil Mobhi and St Brigid’s GNS, and two schools in Fingal County Council, Swords ETNS and Thornleigh ETNS. We have some nice little videos […]
Week 3 and You Are a Superstar!
Aisling Moloney from RTE News2Day, along with our ambassador David Gillick, visited St Ronan’s NS on Sep 13th and spoke about Marathonkids Ireland. The students were filmed while running and doing warm up exercises. CLICK TO WATCH THE VIDEO Our ambassador David has already started visiting some of the schools that are part of the programme like St. Ronan’s […]
It’s Already Week Two!
The 2019 programme has kicked off in Fingal, Dublin City and South Dublin schools on September 9th. To get you in the mood, you can watch some archive videos from last year’s launch in Fingal and South Dublin. You can watch both videos below: CLICK TO WATCH THE FINGAL VIDEO CLICK TO WATCH THE SOUTH DUBLIN VIDEO And […]
Welcome to Marathonkids Ireland 2019!
Welcome to Marathonkids Ireland 2019 programme! It’s great to have you and your school on board. As you know, Marathonkids is an 8-week programme promoting exercise to 5th and 6th class students in Fingal, Dublin City and South Dublin County Councils. During the course of the programme students will: Take part to four running sessions per […]
Welcome to Marathonkids 2018 – What You Need to Know
Welcome to Marathonkids Ireland 2018 programme! It’s great to have you and your school on board. As you know, Marathonkids is an 8-week programme promoting exercise to 5th and 6th class students in Fingal and South Dublin County Councils. During the course of the programme students will: Take part to four running sessions per week […]
Our 2017 Final Event at Morton Stadium
The Final Event of Marathonkids Ireland 2017 Programme took place on Thursday, Nov 30th at Morton Stadium in Swords. For the occasion, over 40 schools and 2,400 children from both Fingal and South Dublin County Council ran the final mile of Marathonkids Ireland 8-week programme. Among others, the event was attended by Marathonkids Ireland ambassador […]
What I Learned by Visiting Three Schools
As an ambassador for Marathon Kids I had the pleasure of visiting three school in South County Dublin last week, East Lucan Educate Together, Talbot N.S in Clondalkin and St. Kevin’s NS Kilnamanagh. I always enjoy visiting schools because it brings back a lot of happy memories for me. I loved my time in primary […]