2022 PeacePlayers Impact Report FINAL - Flipbook - Page 26
SEMINAL MOMENTS
The Arthur Ashe Courage Award is presented to Trevor Ringland,
a [Ireland Rugby and former Chair of PeacePlayers Northern
Ireland Board] Protestant, and Dave Cullen, a Catholic and
passionate PeacePlayers Northern Ireland advocate, at the ESPYS.
“TEN YEARS AGO, BECAUSE OF MY OWN PERSONAL STRUGGLE, I WOULD HAVE
HAD PROBLEMS SHARING A PLATFORM WITH TREVOR RINGLAND. HOWEVER
SPORT [AND PEACEPLAYERS] HAVE TAUGHT ME THAT IF YOU GET A CHANCE TO
BUILD A FRIENDSHIP, YOU DESTROY AN ENEMY.”
2007
DAVE CULLEN
Addressing a crowd of professional athletes at the 2007 ESPYs
PeacePlayer’s First Game of Three Halves, where
children and young people from different backgrounds
are brought together to explore culture and identity by
participating in three sports from Northern Ireland’s rich,
and often segregated, sporting heritage: football, Gaelic
football and Rugby.
2012
24
89% OF PARTICIPANTS AGREED THAT THEY GOT TO PLAY A SPORT THEY
WOULDN’T NORMALLY GET TO PLAY DUE TO CULTURAL BARRIERS AND DIVISION.
