Evening Echo, Page 46, 08-Apr-2008
Sport In Brief

In 2007 alone, GAA clubs and schools earned €1.4m from Gaelic Telecom and its customers. In total, €2.9m has been raised by Gaelic Telecom and its customers over the last three years for greassroots GAA. GAA President Nickey Brennan and Sean Bolger chairman of Imagine Telecommunications Group and owners of Gaelic Telecom, also revealed recently that during 2007, €1.4m was raised, an increase of 35% on 2006. As well as giving customers significant savings on their phone and broadband bills, the Gaelic Telecom initiative sees 15% of call costs being donated back to customers' nominated GAA clubs or primary schools.

Gaelic Telecom issues funds twice a year and all funds for 2007 have now been presented to the nominated clubs and schools.