What’s Your Plan? – Creating a Club Development Plan

We are delighted to announce that the next in the IABA’s series of online webinars is ‘What’s your plan? – Creating a Club Development Plan’ scheduled for Tuesday 7 July 2020 from 7:30pm – 8:30pm. The webinar will be facilitated by Paddy Barnes (IABA Club Development Officer).

ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

Having a good Club Development Plan is an excellent tool which can give real strategic focus to your club. This webinar will focus on helping clubs to create a development plan which will assist with working towards achieving both short and longer term goals.

The content of this webinar will provide a step by step approach to creating a Club Development Plan, as well as providing some template documentation for clubs to help structure individual plans.

HOW TO REGISTER

To register for the workshop and for further details please click on the Eventbrite URL Link below. Once you have registered for the workshop you will be provided with workshop login details within 24 hours. The workshop will take place via Zoom.

https://whats-your-plan-07072020.eventbrite.co.uk

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions on any of the above. Please don’t forget to make any online learning suggestions to myself by emailing me at jolene@iaba.ie or calling me on 07841470296. All suggestions are very welcome and greatly appreciated.

Kurt Walker will lead out Team Ireland at tonight’s closing ceremony at the 2nd European Games in Minsk, Belarus.

The Canal BC bantam claimed gold at the tournament this afternoon after beating Mykola Butsenko of Ukraine.

Walker, who said he was thrilled with the win, hailed the contributions of Irish coaches Zaur Antia, John Conlan and Dimitry Dimitruk and High-Performance Director Bernard Dunne for their tactical plan.

The Irish staff prepared the “Odessa File” and Walker delivered with a unanimous decision over the Odessa-born southpaw.

Irish captain Kellie Harrington had to withdraw from today’s lightweight final with Finland’s Mira Potkonen because of a hand injury.

Walker (gold), Harrington (silver), Michaela Walsh (silver), Regan Buckley (bronze), Grainne Walsh (bronze) and Michael Nevin (bronze) medalled for Ireland.

Ireland finished in 5th spot in the medals table at the 44-nation tournament.

Great Britain, Ukraine, Armenia, Russia and Ireland commanded the top five positions.

Team Ireland are due to arrive home tomorrow morning via Dublin Airport at 11.15am (Flight LH979, Terminal 1)

(Images courtesy of John Conlan)

Irish Boxing at the European Games

2nd European Games/European Men’s Championships Games Minsk 2019

56kg Kurt Walker (Gold)

57kg Michaela Walsh (Silver)

60kg Kellie Harrington (Silver)

49kg Regan Buckley (Bronze)

69kg Grainne Walsh (Bronze)

75kg Michael Nevin (Bronze)

1st European Games Baku 2015

60kg Katie Taylor (Gold)

75kg Michael O’Reilly (Gold)

49kg Brendan Irvine (Silver)

60kg Sean McComb (Bronze)

Leaders in Sport Discuss Striving for Gender Balance in July Series

Olympic Federation of Ireland Gender Equality in Sport Online Series

1 July 2020

Following the significant interest in the previously postponed OFI Gender Equality Conference, the Olympic Federation of Ireland is delighted to launch an online series which addresses how gender equality can be achieved at leadership level in sport in Ireland. Throughout the four part series leaders from the sporting arena, decision makers and influencers discuss their personal experiences and offer insights into how to ensure that sport is a gender inclusive environment.

Every Wednesday at 2pm TV Presenter and journalist Mark Cagney will discuss the area of gender balance in sport across four different themes; coaching, leadership, governance and portrayal, with the sessions lasting one hour, pre-registration is required for each session – REGISTER HERE for week one.

The aim of the series is to demonstrate the importance of having gender balance at decision making level and to provide concrete examples of how and why having this balance will benefit the wider sporting community. The series is primarily aimed at CEOs, Presidents and the Women in Sport Lead across member federations of the Olympic Federation of Ireland, with a limited number of invitations also made for members of the media and other interested individuals working in this area.

The first edition of the series focuses on leadership within coaching structures and will include case studies from some of Ireland’s biggest names at sports management level. Following that the specific topics being addressed are leadership, governance and portrayal.

Week 1: Focus on Leaders in Coaching

• LISA FALLON Lisa Fallon is the Head Coach of London City Lionesses, who play in the FA Women’s Championship. She is the only Republic of Ireland born Head Coach working in the top two divisions of men’s or women’s professional football in the UK.
• BERNARD DUNNE Bernard Dunne is a retired Professional Boxer. He is a former WBA Super Bantamweight World Champion and also a former European Super Bantamweight Champion. Bernard is currently the High Performance Director for Irish Boxing with the Irish Athletic Boxing Association. 

• SALLY CORSCADDEN Sally Corscadden is the Eventing Performance Director for Horse Sport Ireland. She competed internationally for nearly 30 years. Sally took up the position of Performance Manager and Chef d’Equipe for Horse Sport Ireland’s U21 and U25 HP Squads. In 2017 Sally became the Performance Director, Manager and Chef d’Equipe of Horse Sport Ireland’s Senior Eventing Team.
• SALLY JOHNSON Sally Johnson, Performance Director leads, manages and directs the Performance & Technical Department in Gymnastics Ireland and has attended 2 major Olympic events, 2 European Games and 4 Youth Games.

Launching the series, President of the Olympic Federation of Ireland Sarah Keane said –

“It is important to have balanced and diverse viewpoints represented in all areas of Irish society and Irish sport. This series focuses on Gender Equality at the leadership level in sport, and the purpose of the series is to use concrete examples of how organizational structures can be challenged and adapted to support all sportspeople.

“Tokyo 2020 will be the most gender balanced Olympic Games ever, with 48.5% of the athletes being female, which is encouraging. The next step is to ensure that there is a balance across the leadership positions in sport, to make sure that more voices are represented. This series addresses gender equality specifically, but the same philosophies apply across all areas of equality, to ensure unbiased and a more inclusive community.”

ENDS

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Heather Boyle, OFI Public Relations Manager

+353 87 337 1954, heather@olympicsport.ie

Irish boxing has won seven medals at the first two European Games.

Katie Taylor and Michael O’Reilly claimed double gold at the inaugural edition of the Games five years ago and Rio 2016 and Tokyo Olympian Brendan Irvine won silver, with Sean McComb taking home bronze from the Azeri capital.

And Kellie Harrington, Michaela Walsh and Grainne Walsh took home silver and bronze from Minsk 2019.

The 2019 European Games was doubling up as the 2019 European Men’s Championships in Minsk, with Kurt Walker, Michael Nevin and Regan Buckley winning gold and bronze.

EUROPEAN GAMES

2015 Azerbaijan

60kg Katie Taylor Gold

75kg Michael O’Reilly Gold

49kg Brendan Irvine Silver

60kg Sean McComb Bronze

2019 Minsk

57kg Michaela Walsh (Silver)

60kg Kellie Harrington (Silver)

69kg Grainne Walsh (Bronze)

 

Please see below attachments and posters in relation to the IABA’s Return to Training Protocols.

Click here for IABA Board of Director’s statement.

 

IABA Return to Training – Protect yourself at all times-converted

Club Covid-19 Officer-converted

Covid 19 Club Risk Assessment Template