Press release

ESB launches 2007 GAA Minor Championship sponsorship

2nd May 2007: ESB has successfully launched the third year of its sponsorship of the GAA Minor Football and Hurling Championships.

The 2007 season has been marked by a series of functions in the four provinces to officially start the Minor Championships and raise awareness of the games at development level.

The four launches were attended by senior figures from the GAA and the ESB.

ESB Chief Executive, Padraig McManus praised the work of the GAA, commenting that it was perhaps one of the best fitting business and sporting alliances in the country.

"ESB operates in every town and parish across Ireland and so too does the GAA".

Mr McManus said the support for the Minor games was in keeping with ESB's sponsorship strategy.

"ESB is involved in a number of sporting programmes that seek to develop the discipline at youth level, which in turn will feed into successful competition at senior level".

ESB also sponsors Under 20 Rugby, Women and Schoolgirls Hockey, and the Athletics Ireland development programme.

The Minor Championships are seen by many as a key developmental stage in maintaining the high standard of competition in the Senior Championships.

The ESB Minor Championships entails more than 75 inter-county games of football and hurling with 1000's of under 18 players participating.

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