RUGBY fans from Limerick are being invited to join a unique charity challenge, and scale the heights of Ireland’s highest mountain with a squad of sporting legends this autumn.
GAA star Alan Kerins has signed up some of the best known names in rugby for ‘Caps to the Summit’ – a two-day adventure hike of Carrauntoohil that is aiming to raise more than €100,000 for development programmes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Kerins has teamed up with Irish-based charity Gorta – Self Help Africa for the event, which is inviting fans of the game to join such legends as Tony Ward, Ollie Campbell, Eric Elwood, Limerick’s own Peter ‘The Claw’ Clohessy, and a host of others on the two-day expedition to Kerry, in September.
Amongst the Munster rugby names already signed up are former international players Donal Lenihan, Tony Ward, Mick Galwey, Mick Kiernan and current women’s star Sharon Lynch.
Up to 100 Irish rugby fans will join more than 20 former rugby internationals on the climb, during which they will also participate in a two-day programme of events in Keel village, in the shadow of the mountain.
Participants are being asked to contribute €2,500 or raise that sum in sponsorship to take part.
For more information or to register on the upcoming trip, visit www.capstothesummit.com.
