Foundation Football and Child Protection @ Ballerin GAC

On Friday and Saturday Ballerin GAC had a child protection and foundation football course delivered within their club. Brian Smith and Ruari Convery delivered the course. Ballerin now have twenty two additional coaches with the certification which will hopefully give them the confidence to get involved with teams in the future.

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).

New Foundation Coaching Course @ Swatragh GAC

On Saturday 9th January despite the heavy snow Swatragh GAC hosted a new GAA foundation course for their coaches. Chris Collins and Richard Ferris delivered the course to 24 coaches. Thanks to all the coaches who attended, they certainly applied themselves very well!

St. Mary's Magherafelt Foundation Coaching Award

On Tuesday 8th December twenty 6th form students from St. Mary's Magherafelt continued with their foundation coaching award. Richard Ferris delivered a number of classroom based workshops with the students in the morning.

Followed by some work in the gym going through the various stages and activities of the GAA Fundamentals. The new coaches worked extremely hard throughout the day and applied themselves really well. The final stage of their foundation award will be to do a practical session with some children from the local primary school. The coaches will be assessed and given feedback and personal improvement goals. Well done to all involved.

Coaching Courses held this week

On Tuesday night 36 boys from Bellaghy Under 12 panel were put through a coaching session entitled 'Conditioned Games for Kids' delivered by Magherafelt GPO Diarmuid Scullion. This was part of Derry's coach education programme and 45 coaches turned up to observe. Feedback from the coaches has been very positive. Thank you to Limavady GPO Richard Ferris, and Bellaghy club coaches Sean Mc Erlean, Raymond Craig and Martin Mc Faul as well as to the boys who took part in the session.

On Friday and Saturday 18 coaches completed their child protection and foundation football awards held at Foreglen GAC. Chris Brown led the child protection course and Chris Collins delivered the foundation football. The coaches came from clubs right across the County and will no doubt be helping out with underage teams in their clubs next year. Thanks to Foreglen GAC for hosting the course in their superb new facility.