Big weekend for Ballycran - and they're prepared to go to gaol to reach their goal!

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Joe Brown, mum Lorraine and club officials Shane Gilmore and Emma Keith with GoT-style throne of hurls!

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It's a huge weekend for the ambitious Ballycran GAA club from the Ards Peninsula.

Members are staging a gala fundraiser at the Crumlin Road Gaol complex in Belfast tonight.

The 'gaolbreak' is part of an 80th anniversary effort to raise more than a quarter of a million pounds for an indoor training facility and health and wellness centre.

Chairman Shane Gilmore says a cross-community ethos has always existed at Ballycran like in the annual health and well-being initiative, 'Cransformation'...

Here's the hurling and camogie club's vice chair Emma Keith...

A star of the fundraising initiative has been 15-year-old hurler Joe Brown, who's collected £1,000.

His mother Lorraine says McKenna Park is a special place ...

 

 

 

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