Last Sunday saw De La Salle Palmerston's home ground, Kirwan Park, host the 9th annual Kieran Burke Festival of Rugby...
Over 800 Boys and Girls aged Under-7 from 29 different clubs throughout Leinster took part, with close to 2,000 proud parents and spectators cheering them on proudly played as they player on the 16 acre site, most of whom were excitedly taking place in their first ever festival or rugby.
And what excitement they had in store as they made new friends from other clubs from all over Leinster and also got to meet Leinster players Ian Madigan, Jack McGrath and Adam Woodward who excelled as ambassadors for Leinster at the event by signing autographs and posing for photos with the future stars of Leinster and, hopefully, Irish Rugby!
Another proud link to the tournament was that Kieran’s dad Karl is the current President of De La Salle Palmerston and he proudly oversaw the whole event and took great pride in preventing the trophy to the winners from Balbriggan RFC.
An event of this magnitude takes a considerable amount of organising and with the original event having being postponed at the end of January due to bad weather.
DLSP FC would like to thank a number of key people who have been instrumental to the success of the event year on year: The Burke Family, Michael Nugent, David Hicks, John Corr, Stephen Gore of Leinster Rugby, all the members of DLSP involved in pitch marking, traffic management etc, and most importantly all the participants. Till next year, which will proudly be the events 10th anniversary!
To see photo's of the event, click on the following link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dlsp/sets/72157632788050795/with/8483819420/