Football Development Goal Keeping Workshops

Football Development Goal Keeping Workshops
Workshop aimed at youth and adult club goalkeepers and coaches.

–We would like to invite coaches and players from around Cork who are interested in learning more about developing high quality Gaelic Football Goalkeepers in your clubs. We plan to run two interactive 1 hour webinars which will be followed by a number of practical pitch sessions across the county once COVID restrictions are relaxed. This event is designed for coaches and players of all levels of ability and experience.

Webinar 1 (March 15th @ 8pm) will focus on:

·        Evolution of the Goalkeeper position as one of the most vital positions in any team today

·        How we select goalkeepers from a young age & what talents & qualities we should be looking at

·        Taking a longer term view of the development pathway for young Goalkeepers from age 11 to 18

Webinar 2 (March 31st)  will focus on:

·        Kick Out techniques, skills & strategies

·        Shot-stopping & footwork skills

·        Handling & football skills

·        Communication & mental skills

The facilitators for these sessions will include the following people:

Billy Morgan – Nemo Rangers

Conor Counihan – Aghada

Ray O’Mahony – Eire Og

Brian Morgan – Nemo Rangers

Kevin Murphy – Boherbue

Pat Prendergast – Bandon

Billy O’Connor – Cullen

Alan Quirke – Valley Rovers

Please register for thie first workshop on the 15th March using the following link.

Sign up now

 

Be Ready to Play Programme workshop

 

“Be Ready to Play Programme” following last week’s announcement (https://www.gaa.ie/news/ground-breaking-be-ready-to-play-coaching-programme-launched/).

 

Coach Education are running a live launch webinar on Tuesday March 2nd at 7pm via Microsoft Teams.  It would be great if you can join us, just click on the link below:

https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NmZkNDgwYTktOGI4Zi00ODFhLTg1N2EtNmZiOWQ5NDMwNzA0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22ac45bc86-afd4-42a5-9fc3-3e87e1b77fce%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22a435cf56-8783-4469-b1f6-a4e18adcc9fd%22%2c%22IsBroadcastMeeting%22%3atrue%7d

 

Speakers for the launch include:

  • Shane Flanagan – GAA`s Director of Coaching and Games  
  • Aoife Lane – Chair of the Gaelic Games Sports Science Workgroup and Head of Department of Sport and Health Sciences, AIT
  • Des Ryan – Lead of the Gaelic Games Athletic Development Workgroup  and Head of Sports Medicine and Athletic Development, Arsenal FC

 

Could I ask that you do the following to help to promote the programme ahead of launch:

  1. Liaise with the county PRO and post regular information on your county social media pages using the article link above and programme image (attached and below)
  2. Send webinar link to each of your clubs for distribution to players, coaches and parents

 

Registration begins through the GAA eLearning site on March 3rd https://learning.gaa.ie/bereadytoplay

 

 

The GAA Be Ready to Play Programme is a Coaching and Sports Science programme, supported by UPMC Healthcare, that will be delivered via webinars, online training programmes, instructional videos and live sessions. This is a holistic programme supporting male and female youth and adult players, and coaches during their return to training post Covid and building up to playing games again, therefore encompassing the full playing season. We aim to educate coaches and players by providing an evidence informed programme. This will hopefully result in increased enjoyment, performance, participation and reduced injury risk.

 

 

The Programme will include –

 

  • Athletic Development Programmes updated fortnightly through the GAA website (Instructional Video & Live Sessions in collaboration with Setanta College)
  • Monthly focussed Coach Education webinars (Gaelic Games Coaching Specialists & Guests)
  • Monthly Sports Science support webinars (all Sports Science Discipline covered)

 

Our goal is to sign up as many Gaelic Games Coaches and players as possible and support return to play while providing a lasting educational and support resource for Gaelic Games.

 

Cork Kelloggs Cúl Camps a major success

Rebel Óg Coaching organised 24 regional Kelloggs GAA Cúl Camps through July and August catering for 3000 children between the ages of 6 and 13. The camp venues were strategically placed to allow children from as many areas as possible attend and were expertly led by our GDA’s. With the exception of some weather interruptions the camps are being hailed as a major success. Additional measures were in place around sanitation and compliance with Covid 19 guidelines with parents and children exercising great patience around the measures. The image of children kicking football, striking sliothars  and having loads of fun was great to see given the lack of activity so far in 2020.
Rebel Óg Coaching are very grateful to all the clubs who gave up their club grounds to facilitate the running of the camps and to all the coaches who implemented a huge programme of fun and engaging activities for all the children.
Special mention must also go to the very successful  8 club run Cúl Camps in August catering for 500 children. The coordinators involved put in huge work to ensure the camps were compliant with Covid 19 guidelines and enjoyable for the children.
It is hoped that Cork clubs will be able to run a full programme of camps in 2021 similar to that of 2019 where 120 camps took place

Revamped Cork GAA fundraising campaign to boost Clubs and County

New “Rebels’ Bounty” to offer €500,000 in prizes to be shared across Cork

Clubs across Cork are set to benefit from a significant funding increase through a new mechanism designed to revamp the traditional clubs’ draw. The proposed new system, called the “Rebels’ Bounty”, is designed to maximise return to clubs and is part of the overall drive to raise revenue for reinvestment at local and county level. It will also give clubs an opportunity to generate funds at a time when traditional methods are restricted because of COVID-19.

Details of the new prize draw will be outlined to clubs for consideration in the next few weeks and Cork County Board is confident that it will provide all clubs with an opportunity to increase their funding through both direct and indirect investment. Due to the current restrictions on meetings, clubs will be briefed on the proposed format through a series of online webinars.

Enhanced prizes totalling €500,000 and a more progressive incentive scheme for clubs are set to form a significant part of the overhaul. The scheme is designed to ensure clubs get a fairer distribution of funding based on sales.

County Chairperson, Tracey Kennedy, said; “The traditional draw stood us well in the past, but we now have a great opportunity to enhance the offering, raise more revenue and deliver that increase back to the clubs. Consumer expectations have changed significantly in recent years, and this traditional fundraising drive is evolving to meet that expectation. The Rebels’ Bounty will give clubs an opportunity to make up some of the shortfall in fundraising because traditional ‘big-ticket’ events have been restricted by COVID-19. Our focus is on moving forward together, as a county, as clubs and as individual members. This is reflected in the new sponsorship deals which have been announced recently. Cork GAA does well when our clubs do well and we look forward to formally launching this new fundraising initiative in the weeks ahead.” 

Covid-19 Update – 18ú Márta 2020

A chairde,

As part of our collective efforts in dealing with the Covid-19 outbreak, it is our intention to communicate with our units on a regular basis and keep you informed of developments as they happen.

The GAA can today confirm that a number of coaching and games initiatives will not proceed in light of the prevailing circumstances.

These include the 2020 Féile competitions, the Celtic Challenge and activity involving Academy Squads.

It has also been confirmed that the Connacht Senior Football Championship meeting between New York and Galway, scheduled to take place in Gaelic Park, New York on May 3rd, has been postponed

The future for this fixture will be considered at a later date and in the context of the anticipated overall re-drawing of the national fixtures calendar for 2020 as necessitated by the ongoing disruption to the GAA games programme.

We will add to this list as further cancellations arise.

The Association would like to reassure our members that when games activity re-commences we will provide an adequate games schedule for our players at all ages and grades.

In the meantime, we are working on a unified approach for all of our units on the issue of Games Development and Administration personnel and will be liaising with our Provincial Councils and County Committees in the coming days.

Thank you for your combined efforts to date.

These efforts have the potential to make a massive difference and it is in this vein that we ask you to continue to mobilise the GAA network and our wider membership in the interests of public health and the greater good.

Please continue to exercise caution relating to social distancing and coughing and sneezing etiquette and continue to refer to HSE.ie for more detailed advice.

Tomás Ó Riain Tom Ryan
Ard Stiúrthóir Director General