Parks Tennis is a voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the game of tennis for children around Ireland. It originally began as Dublin Parks Tennis in 1977, the brainchild of Irish Junior Tennis Champion, Tom Shelly, and catered for 700 children.
 

In 1990, Parks Tennis Ireland was established as a co-operative venture between the national body - Tennis Ireland and Dublin Parks Tennis League Ltd. The establishment of Parks Tennis provided the impetus for its extension nationwide and today, it caters for 26,000 children in 160 venues across the country, proving to be one of the biggest & most popular sporting camps in Ireland!

 
Parks Tennis programmes now operate in several cities and towns including Dublin, Wicklow, Kildare, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford, Wexford, Kilkenny, Carlow Tipperary, Kerry, Westmeath, Clare, Sligo, Mayo, Leitrim, Roscommon, Laois, Offaly, Meath, Donegal, Derry, Cavan, Monaghan & Belfast.