Go for Life Games

The Go for Life Games is a celebration of physical activity. On 8 June 2013, it will bring together almost 200 older participants along with their supporters for a festival of fun sporting activities. The teams represent older people's groups from Carlow, Cork, Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown, South County Dublin, Fingal, Kildare, Kilkenny, Meath, South Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford and Wicklow.

Each county will have teams taking part in three games which are based on some of the activities played by Go for Life groups around the country - 'Lobbers' (a target game adapted from petanque and boules), 'Flisk' (adapted from boccia and horseshoe pitching), and 'Scidils' (an adaptation of ten pin bowling with one skittle).

Over the next few years, Age & Opportunity plans to build the Games into one of Ireland's significant amateur multi-sporting events.

Teams have been supported locally by their Local Sports Partnership and the HSE.

To view the highlights from last year's games click on the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szQJrnXxT8U

Go for Life is the national programme for sport and physical activity for older people. Over ten years, we have helped more older people to be more active, more often. We now have 40,000 people taking part in Go for Life activities annually.

Go for Life is an Age & Opportunity initiative supported by the Irish Sports Council.