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Having been through these issues, unfortunately there are no shortcuts.

Contact your provincial council who will advise and contact your clubs solicitor. It will take time as I don't believe you will be able to avoid a EGM. Probably best to move to the corporate trustee whilst doing this, which should avoid the problem from happening again.

Apologies if there is another thread on this matter already.

Just wondering how clubs teams are training during the lockdown whilst still being compliant with the rules. Is your club giving your players programmes to follow ? Any clubs doing s&c via zoom ?

Will Club or County teams put into isolation have to cede walkovers?
Could some County win the AI without kicking a ball or getting 2 or 3 walkovers?
There could be a lot of asterisks needed.....

Its going to be very hard to relegate teams in this environment.

At some stage it was communicated that you could only tog 24 players for challenge matches, is that still the case?

["I would have also said that any county that trains between now and that date [...] if you are going to train as a county before then, as is reportedly going on around the country, I would throw those teams out of the Championship."]

Strong words from Michael Duignan. I agree with him.

https://www.otbsports.com/football/gaa-michael-duignan-1038161

Stressing that while he feels the organisation have performed largely well during lockdown, Duignan says he has issues about a return to play.

"The first thing I probably wouldn't have done is put a date in place when you are allowing clubs to play until the end of October. It is creating an overlap.

"I would have also said that any county that trains between now and that date [...] if you are going to train as a county before then, as is reportedly going on around the country, I would throw those teams out of the Championship."

Duignan took a dim view of John Horan's comments about 'not intending' to punish teams that are training before then.

"I don't want the headline to be 'kick them out', but this is not skirting the rules. This, to me, is way more serious than that. We are just coming out of an unprecedented time of our lives, and we can't talk out of both sides of our mouth here.

"If community is going to be first and club is going to be first - it would have been easier to bring back county first, from a logistics point of view. The decision was made to go back with their clubs because every player is a club player.

"I'm disillusioned with the direction from inter-county managers, first of all, for putting pressure on their players to getting back training. Because players will do whatever they are asked to do.

"I am starting with inter-county managers, then county boards for allowing it to happen. I'm also disillusioned with Croke Park for not coming up with stricter sanctions. And the players themselves, and the GPA in particular, for not standing up and saying 'we're not accepting this'.

"It is hypocrisy, it is dishonest and what sort of message are we sending to young men, who are supposed to be leaders of their community, between 22-25 years of age?

"We are running courses for them, we are putting them through college through the GPA, and yet we're telling them that being dishonest and hypocritical is the right way to go about your business. I think it is disgraceful what is happening around the country."

"I think it is high time that people in the GAA grew up and grew a pair of balls, and called it for what it is: you are either training with your county or you're not.

Duigan is 100% correct on this, You would think the GPA could of shown some leadership and asked all its players not to train with their county teams.

With an online form to be completed how will they do this? Will they have to use their unique GAA number to ensure they have the correct person?

I doubt they know themselves, servasport looked after alot of this stuff for the gaa, are they still going?

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaa-insists-members-data-is-safe-despite-it-firms-financial-trouble-38268534.html

Glad to see some changes in the latest document

https://www.gaa.ie/news/covid-19-club-education-programme-unveiled-for-clubs/

They're planning on rolling out an online system for tracking players temperature in two weeks 🤔 Given the GAAs track record with delivering on IT projects I can't see this happening, I would imagine a committee came up with this idea without any idea of how to role it out. Technically its not hard, but integrating and supporting all the clubs in the country is.

Hi Folks,

Just wondering have many clubs continued their club lottos during the lockdown ?

How are you pulling the numbers for the draw ?

Any tips for promoting online club lottos ?

thanks

Note also that you can configure whatsapp groups where only admins can post to the group !

I have it on good authority from somebody quite senior working in the Data Protection Commission that they have never been asked their opinion on this by the GAA and that if they were the status quo could very easily be allowed to remain in place simply by asking people for permission to opt in to a group or groups.

I'm not a GDPR expert, but I guess one of the concerns is that when you join your kid up for the u10s you're not being informed that your number is going to be added to the u10s whatsapp group where every other parent parent can view your number. I do think this  is a legitimate concern for some people. The local school teacher may not wish for everyone to view their mobile number. I have seen some prominent GDPR experts whose opinion i respect on twitter saying the gaa are right in regard to their concerns.

However GAA HQ seem very naive to think they can build their own inhouse communications system that will need to be secure and user friendly.

If rumours are to be believed - it seems as if there are a number of players dropped from the panel for 2020. Eoin Kerin, Sean Andy O Ceallaigh and Declan Kyne being three of the more prominent ones in that they have been starters in recent years.
I find this strange personally as all 3 play in the fullback line and we are not known to have much depth/cover in that area.

I wish they would release an official training squad. It would put an end to all the rumours and loose talk of x, y and z being on or off the panel or having being cut or not cut.

I couldn't agree more, one thing Galway GAA needs to understand is that in the era of social media if you don't publish news someone else will

How would we classify Kearney's success as a fundraiser for Galway GAA? Massive hole in the finances on this aspect for the year, blaming the early exit of the two Senior teams isn't going to entirely cut it really as an excuse given the approx €700k drop. Are we to believe that unless one of the teams make an AI final, good fundraising is going to be impossible to sustain year on year? Kearney stated that our financial systems are the "envy" of others, doubtful anyone is looking to copy Galway's fundraising system anyway.
I see from reports that Kearney made out that the relationship with Supermacs was "very, very good", I mean who is he fooling with that nonsense apart from the hurling delegates?

Brian Keville of Liam Mellows was also complimentary of the reforms brought about, but believes Galway GAA cannot simply forget their troubled past.

“Looking back at the 2017 accounts, inter-county gate receipts over the past two years have increased from €195k to €297k and club gate receipts have increased from €866k to €1.2m. With a difference of €483k in three years down to the new bosca system (tickets are purchased at a van outside the ground on match-day to eliminate cash changing hands at the turnstile), does it, unfortunately, shine a light on past practices? Until we deal with matters of the past, it is very hard to move forward with confidence.”

That's from the Examiner report, I think Mr Keville is spot on with his inference to past practices, the leap in revenue is huge, are we really to suppose that the club attendances in particular have increased to match that rise in two years?

Any mention from the top table about the systemic issues requiring action that were highlighted by KW in his resignation statement? Football issues so probably not a major concern for the Galway GAA top brass that edited out reference to it in his statement in the first place.

Surely its the treasurer that should have been driving the fundraising ? How come Kearney is getting all the blame, and Mike Burke is seen as the white knight ? I don't fathom this at all.

I'm not sure what Mr Keville was suggesting should be done ? i would imagine the only hard data they have is that the cash figures are up, if someone was pocketing the money in the past how would they prove it ? I very much doubt they would have evidence to get a conviction.

In regards to Kevin Walshs resignation statement both the County Secretary and County PRO are from football clubs questions should have been asked of them all right.

How do you know that Walsh & O'Donoghue were told there was significant cuts to their budget ? Neither of them publicly stated it, and the treasurer on monday night stated that this wasn't the case, and no delegate stood up to contradict him.

The calibre of the opponent ? his opponent had plenty of business experience where you can sack an employee who isn't performing but the man had little if any experience in the non profit area where you have to bring a team along with you. I honestly don't think he was as strong a candidate as you might think.

There was an issue with gate receipts, but I would of liked to see a better breakdown of the figures, ie revenue per match figures etc.

It shouldn't surprise me but it does

Only in the last week we've had the supporters club issue a warning about fundraising, then there was the mammoth decrease in fundraising in the accounts and then before the delegates last night Kearney told everyone how difficult and demanding the job was yet they still voted him back in whilst ignoring one of the best candidates that will be put forward in any county. Do the hurling clubs have short memories and forgotten why O'Donoghue left?

Good luck to Shane O'Neill as he's going to need it, suspect he won't find it as easy to fund raise Joyce will.

On a separate note the treasurer appears to be doing a very good job and Galway are in a far better place thanks to him. So the country board have generated nearly 400,000 euro extra in club gate receipts to 2 years ago; You'd have to wonder how much has gone missing under previous regimes.

Why o'Donoghue left is still a mystery in my opinion, ok there had been rumors that the funding was going to be cut, but we know that wasn't true. There was talk that he had to pay for tickets for the all-Ireland, but imho that seems like a very weak reason for leaving. Interestingly none of the hurling club delegates had a cut at kearney last night. If kearney was so bad as whats been made out in social media i would of thought at least one delegate would of tackled him, note there is a lot talk that Pat Kearney is a cowboy but nothing to actually back it up, okay he will admit himself he might not be the best communicator but I haven't heard of him doing anything wrong.

I wouldn't be so sure about the treasurer myself, he performed very well in his first year, but hasn't done much of late. Galway GAA ran a quarter of a million debt this year. Okay gate receipts are up, but there was no breakdown of the figures, how much of this is down to extra matches due to championship changes, replays etc ? He reckons we need to raise 500k, but had no plan for this and wont be tackling it until after xmas, surely it was his job to keep the supporters club sweet and onboard ?

Hello,

Our club is looking to get a new set of goalposts for our main pitch, im looking to get a few prices, which companies should I contact ?