For any of you that don’t know me my name is Aaron Culligan or Cully and I am one of the Junior Assistant Senior Leaders of the Knockadoon Youth Week. Like many I am finding myself having a wee bit of extra time during isolation and thought I’d share my experience of the KYW to
If I’m honest I’m not too sure my words could ever do justice for the impact that Knockadoon has had on myself and so many other lives, but if I can even convey a fraction of that joy and contentment here, then I’ll be more than happy. Have you ever got that feeling when you
My experience of Knockadoon should have started back in 2013, 15 year old me was one of the few people in my friend group that had never experienced Knockadoon. After hearing plenty of stories and seeing plenty of photos of the previous year, me and my friend decided that we wanted to experience it and
To be honest I can’t even remember a time that I didn’t know about Knockadoon. My older sister went when she was around 8 and that triggered a chain reaction of my Mam getting rid of us for a week every July. I still remember how I used to pray I could go to
It all started way back when in 2011. I was a mere 12 years old, oblivious to what Knockadoon was and what it entailed. The only thing I really knew was that it was a week away from my parents and a week of good craic with my closest pals. I didn’t know what it
What is it like to fall in love with a place? I spend 11 months of my year yearning to be in the place I hold dearest, Knockadoon. To the average person, the camp seems no more special than any other Gaeltacht or summer course, but to those of us who have been lucky enough
I didn’t really know which way I would have liked to take this blog post so I decided no better way than to start from the beginning of my Knockadoon experience which maybe some people who are yet to come to camp can relate to and those who have been to camp will understand completely.
I’ve been asked to write a blog post about my Knockadoon experience to date, a task which sounds a lot easier than it actually is. I spent quite a while trying to think of what slant I would take on the blog and decided that an outline of my journey so far would be
Here is our second edition of ‘Reeling in the Leaders’ and it is from one of the KYWs favourite sons Niall Clarke aka Whoosh/Bruce. Enjoy!! I’ve been asked by one of my very good friends and current assistant senior leader Niall Cunningham to try and put into words what Knockadoon has done for me and
I’ve been asked by Niall “Niggs” Cunningham to write down a blog if you like of my past and current feelings/experiences with me facing delays of assignments, a Celtic game and just general laziness I’m finally getting round to having a crack and maybe even out-shadowing Nigg’s famous/infamous blog which he called the “kings
