Lufthansa Technik Turbine Shannon (LTTS) has announced a new GAA sponsorship deal for Clare & Limerick Post-primary schools Gaelic Games competitions. The sponsorship covers hurling, Gaelic football, camogie & ladies Gaelic football competitions for a three-year period, beginning September 2024. LTTS celebrated the launch of this new partnership with members of Clare and Limerick GAA communities as well as students & teachers from Clare and Limerick post-primary schools.
To mark the event, the LTTS team flew in a 60% scale replica of the CFM Leap 1B engine made from Lego. Weighing almost half a tonne, it is made up of over 400,000 individual pieces of Lego. The Lufthansa Lego Leap Engine is a working model and landed in Shannon to mark the launch of this new sponsorship initiative, unveiling their new purpose ‘Working Together for our Future Generations’
“As a company, we are committed to our purpose statement ‘working together for our future generations’ and with the next generation in mind, we are delighted to be able to support Gaelic games competitions in both Clare & Limerick. The GAA is the most celebrated form of Irish culture which continues to thrive and grow from generation to generation. Clare & Limerick have almost 40 secondary schools combined with more than 20,000 students many of whom participate in hundreds of school games every year” a statement from the company said.
They went on to say: “The schools are an integral part of our local communities very often working hand in hand with their local GAA clubs and playing an integral role not only in the education of our young people but also in the health and wellbeing of thousands of teenage boys and girls. More than 90% of our employees live in the counties of Limerick and Clare and almost half have children attending local county schools. We are so proud and appreciative of our association with the schools and the GAA and look forward to a very successful partnership over the next 3 years. GAA abú!”
