Spa go green for St Patrick’s day!

 

This week has seen Spa GAA swap our traditional blue and gold colours to go green, all for the sake of climate change and the environment. In partnership with REC Ireland Park Road Killarney, solar energy specialist, we have just installed a 28.5 kW Solar PV system at our club grounds in Tullig.

The system comprising 60 PV panels, mounted on the south facing roof of the multi- purpose sports hall and supported by 10 kW battery storage represents a state of the art installation. It comes on foot of the club being one of the first GAA club recipients of Kerry County Council’s Climate Action Grant Scheme, launched in 2024.

Speaking this week club Chairman Tadhg Hickey welcomed the development “ as a hugely positive initiative in terms of reducing our on-site carbon footprint, promoting renewable energy and reducing our dependency on oil and gas.”

 

In a further signal of Spa’s commitment to the green agenda our club have recently been shortlisted as the only GAA club in Kerry under the Shared Island Sports Club Electrical Vehicle charging scheme where funding is provided to install a network of publicly accessible chargers for communities through local sports clubs. Along with ramping up of public EV charging in local communities the scheme offers significant potential for clubs to generate income, and is another example of the positive contribution of sports clubs in their locality.

                                                                                                         

Among the pictures taken by Anne Holland are members of Spa GAA Tadhg Hickey, James Cahill, Michael Cronin and Pa Murphy with Stephen from REC and staff members Fakhar Abbas and Derry Brosnan