We are supporting our friends at St. Colm’s GAC, Drum and their Senior Camog Rachel McIntyre on Friday night by switching on our floodlights from 7-8pm for Babyloss Awareness Week.
Unfortunately Rachel’s story is all too common and her story will touch families living in our own community.
#ClubLightsToHeaven #IAmOneOfMany
Rachel’s brave story is below:
“In June of 2016, with our first pregnancy, we lost our baby at 13 weeks. From that, in the September I started a small support page via Facebook and shared our story. By November I set about getting our senior camogie back up and running, with the help of a few other girls and the support from the club it was a success. We started training in January 2017 and here we are five years on. I truly believe camogie saved me mentally and emotionally. I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but I used it as a distraction from my grief. Setting it up gave me something else to think about. If I’m completely honest I never thought I would have succeded but here we are five years deep. Like all clubs we’ve had girls come and go and have new ones coming up through the club helping to keep us together. We lose more than we win, but we are here, we are playing, we are apart of something great for our community and our club, but most importantly for ourselves, and I personally am so grateful – it really is so much more than just a game.
So I please ask you, to join our club in turning on the lights at your club for one hour on Friday 15th October at 7pm to support babyloss awareness week, and join the whole world in a global wave of light – to remember our babies but also to show the support to the men, women and children who despite their grief show up for your club.”
