Sports Academy is highly experienced in planning weekend and week long training camps for GAA teams. This comes from staff that understands GAA, the needs of teams that expect the very best from a training camp and a knowledge of the most professional facilities across the world. Created in 2009 by two former inter county GAA players- Tony Griffin and Tomas Madigan we the standards of professional teams, now we bring this to you.

On September 1st 2009 the small west of Ireland town of Ennis welcomed home its geatest son. On that day Muhammad Ali retraced his roots to visit the spot from which his great great grandfather left Ireland to seek his fortune in the United States of America. Little did Abe Grady know that the most iconic sportsperson in the history of sport would return to visit his ancestral home and honour his Irish roots.

Ali’s ancestor Abe Grady emigrated from his home on the Turnpike Road in Ennis to the United States in the 1860s.  Grady sailed from Cappa Harbour in Kilrush, County Clare, eventually settling in Kentucky, where he married an African-American woman. Their son also married an African-American and one of the daughters of that union was Ali's mother, named Odessa Lee Grady. She married Cassius Clay, senior, and they settled in Louisville, where their son was initially given his father's name on his birth in 1942.

Academy Events, the sports event management wing of Sports Academy International is a professional sports event management company based in Ireland.  Staff at Academy Events have previously worked on the hugely successful 7000km Ride for the Cure charity cycle across Canada, carried out teambuilding for the Lance Armstrong Foundation and created training camp solutions for elite sports teams. Most recently Academy Events staff planned and executed the now famous “Celebrating the Greatest” event in Co Clare, Ireland to welcome Muhammad Ali to his ancestral home.

With Former Tour de France winner and World Champion Stephen Roche. On Saturday, 22nd August, hundreds of people will have the opportunity to ‘get on their bikes’ and get pedalling around Killarney, Co. Kerry with former Tour de France winner Stephen Roche as part of the first ever Ride4Life charity cycle in aid of the Irish Cancer Society.

Ride4life coincides with the second stage of the Tour of Ireland so cyclists can ride along the same roads as the professionals and at the same time help fight cancer – the same reason Lance Armstrong is back in the saddle.