{"id":2794,"date":"2024-10-31T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/?page_id=2406"},"modified":"2026-03-06T11:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T11:33:22","slug":"monaghan-sports-partnership","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/monaghan-sports-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaghan Sports Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2794\" class=\"elementor elementor-2794\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a21eacf e-flex e-con-boxed elementor-repeater-item-default_padding elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"a21eacf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ang_container_spacing_size&quot;:&quot;default_padding&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-36b58969 elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"36b58969\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3177 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/03\/Monaghan-LSP-Logo-RGB-Colour-English-2025-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"Monaghan LSP Logo RGB Colour English 2025\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/03\/Monaghan-LSP-Logo-RGB-Colour-English-2025-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/03\/Monaghan-LSP-Logo-RGB-Colour-English-2025-1024x935.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/03\/Monaghan-LSP-Logo-RGB-Colour-English-2025-768x701.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/03\/Monaghan-LSP-Logo-RGB-Colour-English-2025-1536x1403.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/03\/Monaghan-LSP-Logo-RGB-Colour-English-2025-2048x1870.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/03\/Monaghan-LSP-Logo-RGB-Colour-English-2025-13x12.jpg 13w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h3><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Monaghan Sports Partnership (MSP) is an organisation which promotes participation in sport and physical activity across many populations group in County Monaghan \u2013established and primarily funded by Sport Ireland and operating within the structures of Monaghan County Council.\u00a0 MSP works in collaboration with local and national organisations to deliver numerous initiatives at a local level, aimed at increasing the physical activity levels of all demographics of people and to promote the huge benefits of physical activity on people\u2019s physical and mental wellbeing.<\/p><p>While Monaghan Sports Partnership facilitates activities for all cohorts, their key target groups include:<\/p><ul><li>Children &amp; young people<\/li><li>Adults &amp; children with a disability<\/li><li>Women &amp; girls<\/li><li>Older adults<\/li><li>Migrant community<\/li><li>People in areas of social\/economic deprivation<\/li><\/ul><p>Children need to be physically active for at least 60 minutes per day and with this is mind, we work with Schools, Pre-Schools, After-School, Community groups, Sports Clubs and statutory bodies by introducing or supporting various programmes to support the activity levels of children and young people. Some initiatives include: Playground markings, Fundamental Movement Skills, Learn to Cycle, Volleyball, Tug of War and adapted activities for children with additional needs. We have produced a family fun games and activities booklet for families to use at home.<\/p><h3>Sport Club Supports<\/h3><p>MSP supports local sports clubs through our small grants programme to assist clubs with the purchase of sports equipment and support the development of coach \/ education opportunities. Alongside the direct support to clubs, MSP delivers nationally recognised coach education workshops, developed by Sport Ireland Ethics, Sports Ireland Coaching and Active Disability Ireland to support sports club volunteers, in areas such as safeguarding, coaching children, coaching teenage girls, autism in sport, physical literacy<\/p><p>MSP will continue to promote participation and club development in the County in 2025 in line with the objectives of the Sport Ireland Statement of Strategy, the National Sports Policy and the National Physical Activity Plan.<\/p><p><strong>Priority actions in 2025 include:<\/strong><\/p><ul><li>Delivery of core programming supported by Sport Ireland &#8211;\u00a0 a comprehensive local community programme of activity with emphasis on key target groups outlined above<\/li><li>\u00a0Delivery of 2024-2025 Dormant Accounts funded projects for specific purposes<\/li><li>Support the development of local sports plan, county outdoor recreation plan, local play and recreation plan<\/li><li>\u00a0Enhanced communication design and implementation to increase awareness and promotion of MSP activities<\/li><\/ul><h3>MSP Specific Projects<\/h3><p>In addition to the general programming, MSP delivers several major projects that are funded through Dormant Accounts and some of these projects will continue from 2024 into 2025, with new projects being added in 2025, aimed at promoting participation in sport and physical activity, particularly among key target groups. Typical projects include:<\/p><ul><li>Community Sports Hub \u2013 activating targeted support within specific community areas (location specific in two areas)<\/li><li>Urban Outdoor Adventure \u2013 a project designed to increase participation in the outdoors (especially children and young people) through a series of initiatives to encourage adventure type activity (location specific)<\/li><li>HER moves &#8211;\u00a0 a national initiative designed to increase the participation rates of more teenage girls through new opportunities in conjunction with Sports Primary Schools \/ Community<\/li><li>Equality, Diversity &amp; Inclusion &#8211; a focus on using sport as a vehicle for community integration and the inclusion of young people from new communities etc in existing sports in the areas, along with the development of new sports activity (location specific)<\/li><li>Youth Leadership\u00a0 &#8211; training and education of young people to gain community sport and physical activity leadership skills e.g. as coaches, leaders, referees, committee members etc. This initiative targets secondary school aged learners who wish to develop their leadership skills and MSP also delivers a Primary School version through the PlayMaker workshop<\/li><\/ul><h3>Pop Up Pool Carrickmacross<\/h3><p>The Pop Up Pool is an initiative of Swim Ireland and is supported by Monaghan County Council and Monaghan Sports Partnership. The Pop Up Pool is designed to offer opportunities to people of all ages and abilities to experience water based exercise or \u2018learn to swim\u2019 opportunities in a location where swimming pool access is not readily available or does not exist. A schedule of classes \/ timetable is available at<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/swimireland.ie\/get-swimming\/pop-up-pool\/carrickmacross\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/swimireland.ie\/get-swimming\/pop-up-pool\/carrickmacross\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p>This timetable is likely to change term on term and will be influenced by the needs of the Community who wish to access it<\/p><p>While the Sports Partnership is supporting the activities within the pool, Swim Ireland will have the final say in relation to the schedule of classes as they are dependent on the following \u2013 time slot (outside of School use and Swim Lessons), availability of a Swim Teachers (where required), and availability of Lifeguard supervision.<\/p><p><strong>For general enquiries to the Sports Partnership office, please contact &#8211; <\/strong><\/p><p>Monaghan Sports Partnership, c\/o Mtek 2, Knockaconny, Armagh Rd, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan.<\/p><p><strong>Phone<\/strong>: 042-9755126<\/p><p><strong>General Email<\/strong>: <a href=\"mailto:info@monaghansports.ie\"><strong>info@monaghansports.ie<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p><strong>Facebook<\/strong>: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/monaghansports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.facebook.com\/monaghansports<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a991213 elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"a991213\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/monaghan.ie\/communitydevelopment\/2026\/03\/05\/monaghan-sports-partnership-sports-club-grant-scheme-2026\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Monaghan Sports Partnership Sports Club Grants Programme 2026<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c260f2 e-flex e-con-boxed elementor-repeater-item-default_padding elementor-repeater-item-none elementor-repeater-item-none_hover e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"4c260f2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ang_container_spacing_size&quot;:&quot;default_padding&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monaghan Sports Partnership (MSP) is an organisation which promotes participation in sport and physical activity across many populations group in County Monaghan \u2013established and primarily funded by Sport Ireland and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2794","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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