Dublin GAA partners up with Gourmet Food Parlour

Fri, 5th June 2015

“Dublin GAA secures their passport to great food with Gourmet Food Parlour restaurants partnership”

With the 2015 championship season upon us, Dublin GAA is getting a healthy boost by partnering with the award-winning restaurant company Gourmet Food Parlour for 2015/16.

In a bid to ensure its athletes’ nutrition is as carefully managed as their on-pitch performance, the high profile team has just announced a new relationship with Gourmet Food Parlour, its food partner for 2015/2016. The partnership ensures that each senior hurling and football player will be given the opportunity to visit Gourmet Food Parlour on a regular basis to avail of a selection of healthy options from their wide and varied menus.

The versatility of the menus available across the Gourmet Food Parlour restaurants ensures players can easily choose foods that will enhance their training regime.

Speaking about the partnership, Gourmet Food Parlour Director Lorraine Heskin,: “We are delighted to be given the opportunity to become a partner of Dublin GAA. We have worked together for the past 5 years and have fostered many friendships along the way. We understand the dedication, commitment and passion shown by athletes and those within Dublin GAA on a daily basis, and are delighted to join forces with them to deliver another aspect to their nutritional needs.”

“We look forward to our latest venture with Dublin GAA and hope that our healthy options within our restaurants will help to deliver healthy scores in the seasons ahead for both the football and hurling teams! This is a strategic step forward for the company as we seek other opportunities within the sporting world to provide our nutritious foods to competing athletes.”

Daniel Davey, Dublin Senior Football Performance Nutritionist has worked with a host of elite athletes across a range of sports, developing specialised nutrition strategies designed to help both individuals and teams achieve performance-related goals. Daniel welcomes the healthy partnership with Gourmet Food Parlour adding: " GAA athletes often have both demanding work and training schedules which makes meeting nutrition goals more challenging. Gourmet Food Parlour are a great solution for these athletes in particular, as they can help them to more conveniently meet their energy and refuel requirements on a daily basis."

Tomás Quinn, Commercial and Marketing Manager, Dublin GAA: “We are delighted to enter into a partnership deal with Gourmet Food Parlour . As a leading Irish company in a growing restaurant sector, we believe this partnership is another sign of our desire to help the players meet the needs of balancing inter county football and hurling with their day to day lives.”