County Carlow football club scoops Ireland diversity award 2011 On the 14th of December 2011 in the surroundings of the Mercantile Hotel on Dame Street, Dublin the Carlow County Football Club, better known as Carlow Rugby Club won a 2011 Diverse Ireland Award from the Integration Center. This national award honours those who have made positive advancements around immigrant integration in Ireland in ten different categories and the Carlow Rugby Club won their award in the sporting organisation category in recognition of their key role as host to a very innovative and inclusive integration initiative that saw the re-establishment of one of Ireland’s oldest cricket clubs at the behest of Carlow’s newest residents – the Rohingya Community. In 2009, 13 families originally from Burma were resettled in Carlow town under an UNHCR resettlement programme. An interagency process, under the Carlow County Development Board, was set up to support the families with their resettlement. As