Cumann na mBunscol

Cumann na mBunscol or, as it was known then, An Bord Eadarchathrach, was founded in 1971 by a group of forward-thinking teachers involved in promoting Gaelic Games in their own areas. Those visionary teachers saw the potential to organise on a countrywide basis. Today,  Cumann na mBunscol promotes Gaelic Games - football, hurling, camogie, girls football, rounders and handball - in primary schools in all 32 counties of Ireland. Competitions/activities are provided for all types of schools from large urban schools to small one- or two-teacher schools in rural Ireland. No other sporting code has a similar countrywide infrastructure.

(a) Cumann na mBunscol promotes active and healthy lifestyle choices among schoolchildren (b) Cumann na mBunscol offers equal opportunities to boys and girls (c) Cumann na mBunscol epitomises volunteerism. All activities are organised by teachers for primary school pupils. (d) Cumann na mBunscol promotes Wellbeing among children.