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Introducing Private Online Stores

When ordering teamwear, sometimes the biggest challenge is getting everyone's sizes correct, collecting their personalisation details (if your teamwear company can facilitate this), keeping track of individual payments, and then making the payment of behalf of the school, club or team.  Then there's checking the order when it arrives, sorting it out into individual orders and distributing it to everyone.  This process is even more challenging when maintaining social distance. We can simplify this process with our private online stores!  And it's easily done. When you have finalised your teamwear design (or have chosen a pre-order product option from our store eg the current 2021 "Burgundy" Collection), we set up a private store with your school name.  Inside are images...

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Your feet are the foundation to reaching your goals...

It's true what they say; it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.  The journey can be tough at times for athletes across all disciplines with the feet putting in a lot of the work.  Looking after your most valuable assets is a little easier with Skin Shields training socks.

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The Spasskaya Tower Jersey - our journey to Russia

When I was contacted by Darya Markosyan (Carey Academy Russia) to design and supply jerseys for the dancers performing at the Spasskaya Tower Festival, I had a very limited understanding of the extent of this event that attracts international dignitaries and an audience of over 70,000 from around the world.  Essentially the Spasskaya Tower Festival is a cross cultural event of huge significance in Russia.  ]Through further communication with Darya, I learned that International Dance Team features 36 Irish dancers from 6 different schools across Russia, Germany, Slovakia and Czech Republic (Carey Academy Russia, Ronan Morgan School, Iridan academy, Ceilidh School, Red Star Academy, Avalon Academy, McGahan Lees, Instep School and Greenwood School).  Artistic director of the team was Maria...

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