A Co Tyrone couple has won a brand new home in a competition run by Fermanagh GAA which has raised almost £1m towards a new Gaelic games training centre.
Cathal McErlean and wife Cora from the Eoghan Ruadh hurling club in Dungannon were the lucky winners of the ‘Win a House in Femanagh’ competition, run by Club Eirne, the fundraising wing of the Fermanagh county board.
The couple are now the owners of a new four-bedroom detached home in a new development on the Coa Road in Enniskillen.
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The funds raised as part of the competition are to go towards the development of a £4m revamp of Fermanagh GAA’s training facilities in Lissan.
Club Erne chairman Ger Treacy says everyone involved with the running of the competition is delighted with the final result.
“We’re absolutely delighted with how it has gone, you take a bit of a risk with these online competitions but you promote them as hard as you can and you work as hard as you can,”
“We relied on the clubs within the county and set them a target of selling 300 tickets each and to be fair to them they stepped up and achieved that.
“I suppose that shows that there is unity of purpose in the county to go forward and raise the funds necessary for the training centre at Lissan.
“We’re delighted that everyone in Fermanagh, the clubs in Fermanagh and Fermanagh people all over the world got behind this initiative and made it the success that we all wanted it to be.
Ger added it was special moment to be able to make the call to Cathal and Cora to tell them the good news.
“It’s a brilliant story, a lovely story of a young couple, just married and it’s not often you get to ring someone and tell them they’ve won a house.
“It means so much to them, it’s life changing for them.”
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