Grabbing Old Age By The Bowls

Follow the sun…

ep, make no mishtake, they’re a feisty, fiery and fiercely independent bunch, the Greystones Active Retirement Association.

And they’re plainly still full of a certain lust for life if their busy 2024 timetable is anything to go by.

Keeping busy in 2026 is the name of the game, even if some of these delights break for the summer. Every Monday, it’s chair yoga from 1.15pm to 2pm and art from 2.30pm to 4.30pm, plus short mat bowls on Tuesdays from 10.45am to 12.45pm, all at Kilian House Family Centre. Activities take a break from the end of June to the beginning of September each year.

There’s also the monthly get together coffee mornings, on the last Fridays, 10.30am, again at Kilian House, again, breaking for the summer.

On Sunday, May 24th, the GARA gang are off to sunny Athlone, staying at the swanky Sheraton Hotel. Kathleen isn’t revealing the full price, just that the deposit is €75, which is payable Mondays from 12.30pm to 1.15pm at their Kilian House HQ.

For all bookings – and membership – you can pop along to St Kilian Family House Centre on Tuesday mornings, between 10.30am and 11.30am. Alternatively, you can email the gang on email here, or phone the gang on 0872845465. 

In the meantime, you can find out more about the Greystones Active Retirement Association right about here.