GAA/Oide Future Leaders Month launched
GAA/Oide Future Leaders National Coordinator Eoghan Hanley, Meath LGFA All-Star Mary-Kate Lynch, Offaly senior hurler Adam Screeney and social media influencer Jim Flano, with Jess Bolger and Katie Beesley from Gorey Community School at the launch of GAA/Oide Future Leaders Events Month 2026 in Croke Park.
GAA/Oide Future Leaders Events Month 2026 will run from April 13 to May 15.
This will be the fourth year of Events Month, and it has proven to be very popular among Future Leaders schools with participant numbers steadily growing each year.
Last year there was over 25,000 young people active and involved in events organised by Future Leaders students nationwide and that number is expected to grow again this year.
Each of the five weeks of Events Month prizes will be awarded to the most active schools. There will be four School Sports Equipment Packs and a set of jerseys given to the most active schools each week.
To be in with a chance of winning one of the packs or a set of jerseys for your school make sure to log the details of your event in the form at learning.gaa.ie/FutureLeadersEventsMonth and tag @gaafutureleader in a social media post about your event.
Uachtarán CLG Jarlath Burns is a huge supporter of Future Leaders Events Month. Each year, he visits Future Leaders schools in all four provinces to attend events organised by their students. If you would like to apply to have Uachtarán CLG, Jarlath Burns, visit your schools Future Leaders Events Month event, fill in the form on learning.gaa.ie/FutureLeadersEventsMonth. Successful schools will be notified in early April.
Schools can organise a wide range of Future Leaders events over the course of the month from GAA blitzes to skills challenges and rounders events to fitness challenges. For a full list of the various events, go to learning.gaa.ie/FutureLeadersEventsMonth
GAA/Oide Future Leaders National Coordinator Eoghan Hanley is looking forward to Events Month 2026:
He said: “We are delighted with how Events Month has really grown over the last number years. We started in 2022 and in a way, it was to encourage schools to start organising Future Leaders events in the aftermath of Covid19 restrictions.
“There were just over 16,000 students involved in events over the course of the month in 2022 which was great. It has grown steadily since and last year we have over 25,000 involved. We would love to beat that number again this year.
“There are 415 schools doing the GAA/Oide Future Leaders Programme this year, and we would love if as many of those schools as possible could get involved in Events Month as there as benefits to the students and the schools involved on so many levels, and there are also great prizes to be won each week!”
To register for the GAA/Oide Future Leaders Programme for 2026/27 please visit learning.gaa.ie/FutureLeaders and keep up to date by following @gaafutureleader on all social media channels.