Sligo
GAA Update 11th November
Alcohol Awareness
Seminar:
I
would like to take this opportunity to thank St. Mary’s club for organising the
Alcohol Awareness Seminar in the Sligo Park two weeks ago.
Sligo Champion “All
Star Awards”
The
3rd Annual Awards Banquet of Sligo Champion “All Star Awards” in
association with AIB will be held on Friday 15th of November in the
Radisson Hotel.
Calry/St. Josephs in
Connacht GAA Junior Hurling Championship Final
Congratulations
to Calry/St. Josephs who defeated Coolera/Strandhill to win the Sligo Hurling
Championship and last week went onto convincingly defeated Glencar/
Manorhamilton in the Connacht Clubs Semi-Final. We wish them the very best of
luck in the Connacht GAA Junior Hurling Final on Saturday 16th
November.
Sligo Clubs in Senior
& Intermediate Football Connacht
Hard
luck to Tourlestrane who lost to the current All-Ireland Club Champions St.
Brigid’s of Roscommon at the quarter final stage. Hard luck also to
Drumcliffe/Rosses Point, who lost by the narrowest of margins last week to
Kiltane of Mayo at the Connacht Intermediate Semi-Final stage.
Niall Donoghue Galway
Hurler:
On
behalf of the Sligo GAA County Board I extended our deepest sympathies through
an e-mail to the Galway County Board and the Donoghue family on their tragic
loss of a fine hurler! The Secretary of the Galway County Board responded with
gratitude and appreciation of the Sligo GAA’s sympathies.
Ard-Chomhairle Report for
November
National Hurling
League: No
decision was taken until the next meeting in mid-November. In the meantime two
further proposals have been forwarded to counties for their consideration. It was also agreed that a meeting would take
place with counties participating in divisions other than Division 1 to try to
establish a consensus on the most appropriate league structure for these
counties. Decisions will be taken at the November 16th meeting of
Ard-Chomhairle.
Referees: Football referees must
complete a course on the revised football playing rules before they are
eligible for appointment to referee at any level in 2014. Referees may attend
the course in their own county, in a neighbouring county or online through the
GAA e-learning system.
Rates on Croke
Park: These annual
rates have recently been increased form €600K to €2.1 million, an increase of
350%. They will be appealed. Anybody who has any influence with politicians are
asked to make representations to them on this matter.
All-Ireland Senior
Final Replays: It
was agreed that in future these will be played on Saturdays.
Medical
Bags for County Grounds: Counties are asked to order these which cost about€3K.
It was agreed that Croke Park will pay for them.
Public Clock/Hooter: These
are to be introduced for all Senior Inter-county Championship matches in both
Hurling and Football. A number of challenges remain to be sorted out e.g.
budgets, incidental delays, playing time, match officials, etc.
Managers Charters Rule
3.21 (xiii), Players Charter Rule 3.20 (c):
Revised versions were approved. Funding will be
withheld from counties until these are in place.
One Club Model: Ard-Chomhairle gave
permission for negotiations to commence with An Cumann Camogaiochta and Cumann
Peil Gaeil na mBan with a view to the establishment of structures that will
facilitate the promotion and control of all Gaelic Games within one
organisation.
National Club
Draw: This is going
ahead. Tickets will be available to clubs shortly.
Coaching Officer
Monthly Report
Padraig Clancy thanked Hurling
Promotions Officer Benny Kenny for organising the presentations to our
u/age hurlers in the Radisson Hotel on the Monday of the October Bank Holiday weekend
with the coveted Liam McCarthy Cup in attendance with Conor Cooney.
A very large crowed was in
attendance. Our secondry schools teams are competing very well in all competitions. Congratulations
to Coola School on the opening of their new facilities. Our U-14’s
development squad finished off their year, defeating both Donegal and Monaghan
last weekend. They are now personal fitness programmes for the winter. Well
done to all the panel and their Management Team. We had over 50 U-13’s on a two
day camp during the Halloween break all the players enjoyed it and must be
complemented on their levels of skills indeed their clubs must take a lot of
credit for their work in coaching these fine young players.