Roe Valley GAA Foundation Course

On Friday 21st and Saturday 22nd of January Roe Valley Leisure Centre hosted a Child Protection and the New GAA foundation coaching course for coaches. A large turn out attended the child protection; 51 coaches, then on Saturday 17 coaches completed the full course.Paul Simpson and Richard Ferris delivered the course. Thanks to Ollie Mullan and all the staff at RVLC for all their help and co-operation. Thanks to all the coaches who attended, they certainly applied themselves very well!

Glen G.A.C. Foundation Course

On Friday and Saturday Watty Grahams Glen, Maghera had a Child Protection and Foundation level Football & Hurling course delivered within their club. Emma Murray delivered the Child Protection Course on the friday night and Ben McGuckin and Clare Leahy delivered the Foundation Football and Hurling course on the Saturday. Watty Grahams now have an additional 15 coaches with Child Protection Certificates and 12 Coaches with the Foundation certification. Which will hopefully give them some new ideas and increased confidence to use in 2011. Well done to everyone involved.

Foundation and Child Protection Course

Day / Date	Programme	Workshop	Title Venue	Cost
Fri 21 Jan	GAA Coaching Awards	Child Protection	Roe Valley L.C.
Sat 22 Jan	GAA Coaching Awards	Foundation Course	Roe Valley L.C.	Free to Limavady Council District Clubs

See above foundation coaching course, Free to clubs within the Limavady Borough council area. £25 to anyone from outside the Borough.

Please forward names to Richard Ferris before Monday 17th January.

Please pass this information on to potential coaches within your club.

Last year we had a great course a wide variety of coaches some great ideas with plenty of craic so don't miss out this time around.

It is now a legal requirement to be certified when working with youth teams and players under the age of 18. This course ensures you are!

Times...

Friday 21st Jan 7pm to 10pm Tutor Child Protection Richard Ferris,

Saturday 22nd Jan 9.30am to 4pm Practical modules Tutors Richard Ferris & Paul Simpson.

Both to be held at Roe Valley Leisure Centre

Richard Ferris

Gaelic Games Development Officer

Limavady Borough Council/Derry GAA

07870988138

Busy Weekend @ Owenbeg, Derry Centre of Excellence

On Friday 25 people took part in a Child Protection Awareness course, Saturday was an extremely busy day with 105 young players trialing for the Club Derry Under 15 Panel, 40 players trialing for the Under 16 Panel, 20 new referee's being put through their introduction course and 17 new coaches undertaking the Foundation Coaching Award.

Foundation Football Award at Greenlough GAC

Twelve club members of Greenlough GAC joined Ronan Devlin for a foundation coaching course on a cold Saturday morning, 20th February, having completed their Child Protection Course on Friday evening.

In what was a most enjoyable session; those present learnt the basics of coaching, especially aimed at U-8/10/12 level, both on the field and in theory.

Pictured - (L-R): Niall Bradley, Cormac O'Neill, Paul Downey, Feargal Scullion, Ruairi McGlinchey, Gary O'Neill, Damian McTeague, Hugh Mullan, Sean Madden, Tommy Convery, Diarmuid McCloy, Damian McAlynn and Ronan Devlin (Tutor).

Child Protection and Awareness Course in Derry City

On Monday 22nd of February, Derry GAA ran out a Child Protection and Awareness course for coaches at Steelstown GAC. A large turn out of 35 coaches attended. The course was delivered by Brian Smith and Richard Ferris

GAA Child Protection Course

For the past number of weeks we have been running out GAA Child Protection Courses for various clubs. On Wednesday 4th March Glenullin are hosting the course within their club from 7.30pm. Anyone from the surrounding clubs are welcome to attend.