As part of UCC’s Barr na gCnoc initiative, a community partnership led by Ionad na Gaeilge Labhartha that connects UCC’s research and teaching missions with local engagement, members of the School of Education are leading an innovative project on the teaching of Physical Education (PE) through Irish in DEIS primary schools.The project, which involves 6th class learners in three schools local to UCC, builds on the success of the Gaeilge Stretch programme delivered to 5th class pupils last year. Working in collaboration with Aonad Lán-Ghaeilge in Gaelcholáiste Mhic Shuibhne and local primary partners, the team - Dr Craig Neville, Dr Conor Philpott, Dr Diarmuid Lester, and Tomás Dowling from the School of Education - are exploring how Irish can be used as a medium for learning as well as a subject in its own right.At the heart of the project is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), an educational approach in which subject content is taught through a second or additional language. CLIL helps learners use language authentically and purposefully—in this case, using Irish to talk, move, and learn through PE. Rather than treating Irish as an isolated subject, the approach embeds it in meaningful contexts, encouraging fluency, confidence, and motivation while promoting bilingual and pluriliterate development.