Ireland Lights Up 2026
Get Ireland Walking is delighted to partner again with the GAA and Irish Life for this year’s Ireland Lights Up.
Ireland Lights Up starts on 7th January, 2026. Participating clubs are asked to host a community walk for up to 5 weeks. Clubs can determine their own schedule depending on volunteer capacity.
The ever popular ‘Ireland Lights Up’ returns to GAA clubs in January 2026 in partnership with Get Ireland Walking and Irish Life. Irish Life’s GAA Healthy Clubs Programme and MyLife app are delighted to be supporting this initiative again with a donation of €30,000 in club funding up for grabs in the Irish Life’s GAA Healthy Club Steps Challenge. You don’t have to be an active member of a GAA club to get involved.
Ireland Lights Up encourages GAA clubs across the 32 counties to light up and bring communities together to walk and talk in a safe environment during the dark winter evenings. By registering for Ireland Lights Up you are automatically registered for the Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Step Challenge. Once registered, you will receive further information on the challenge and the MyLife app from Irish Life.
Find out more on the Irish Life’s GAA Healthy Clubs Steps Challenge here:
Bringing communities together
Registrations for the 2026 ‘Ireland Lights Up’ and ‘Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Steps Challenge’ opens today!
Click on the button below to register your club for Ireland Lights Up and the Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Steps Challenge:
JOIN THE IRISH LIFE GAA HEALTHY CLUBS STEPS CHALLENGE ON MYLIFE
Last year over 39,000 participants from over 1000 clubs joined the Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Step Challenge on Irish Life’s MyLife app to get active and show their support for their local GAA club. Don't miss your chance to join the community this January!
MyLife is a personalised health and wellbeing app that inspires people to lead a healthier and more active live. The MyLife app will help you to understand more about your health, so you can easily identify ways to improve it.
MyLife makes health measurable with a single real-time scientifically calculated ‘health score’ based on your body, mind and lifestyle. You can earn points for activities such as answering health assessments in the Wheel of Life, tracking your exercise, getting sufficient sleep and answering the Health Coach’s questions.
Download the MyLife app for free today at the following link:
Queries
Ireland Lights Up
Please contact amy.coo@gaa.ie, brid.odwyer@gaa.ie, or stephen.quinn@gaa.ie for any queries on Ireland Lights Up
Every Step Counts
Please contact support@mylife.irishlife.ie for any queries on the Irish Life GAA Healthy Clubs Steps Challenge