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OCTOBER2017 NUACHTLITIRDEIREADH FOMHAIR 2017 FOR NEWS, VIDEOS AND FIXTURES www.gaa.ie Football Hurling Club General HOW CLEAN IS YOUR CLUBHOUSE? Clubs urged to keep dressing rooms clean after a claim of more than €100,000 is made against the Association over injuries sustained in a fall. OP inter-county teams that battle boots, water from showers, empty or half-used in Croke Park for the Sam Maguire drink bottles, fruit peels strewn on the floor and and Liam MacCarthy Cups have a lot left behind items of gear. When the match is done, in common. One key trait they share people want to get changed and get away. Tis the fact they leave the dressing rooms in immaculate condition after them. But aside from that being an unwelcome surprise for the next team in to use that dressing room, all of It’s a behaviour that is found in successful teams those items represent a hazard for someone walking across a range of sports where by they take an in to them – especially if they need to negotiate issue of pride over the environment in which they those hazards to get to a light switch. operate and like to leave a dressing room just as they found it. Sinead Leavy, GAA Risk and Insurance Manager, says: It’s a point worth making after a GAA club coach involved in looking after an Under 14 team has “Clubs as property owners are legally responsible for Dressings rooms kept neat and been awarded damages of more than €108,000 ensuring that properties are kept free from hazards, tidy and free from hazards over injuries sustained in a fall in a dressing maintained and checked and that they are fit for room. intended use. The coach suffered serious injuries to an arm “The club involved in this incident had no regular system and shoulder after the club member slipped and of cleaning or inspection in place, the light switch was fell badly due to debris scattered on the dressing inaccessible before entry into the dressing rooms, there room floor. was no signage in dressing rooms to advise Users to clean after each use, no cleaning supplies (brush) were For the sake of one minute at the end of a game available in the dressing room. They are all very simple taken to sweep up the floor, the club found itself tasks if undertaken and could have entirely prevented in hot water over an insurance claim that was this incident and injury to a volunteer.” totally avoidable. The claim was submitted to the Personal Injuries Now all our clubs are being urged to be extra Assessment Board who made a judgement of vigilant and to avoid making a similar slip up. €108,125 to the injured club member. The dressing room after a match involving a So the question is simple: Does your clubhouse and Unclean dressing rooms team at any age grade in any club can be a messy dressing room reflect well on your club – or are they can cause accidents place. There’s the muck off countless pairs of an accident waiting to happen? Football Hurling Club General RECORD VETTING NUMBERS PROCESSED IN AREA OF CHILD PROTECTION n light of recent high-profile cases relating to the issue of child protection in sport, it is important that all clubs are aware of the GAA club commitments and responsibilities in this area. IThe vetting awareness programme has resulted in the processing of more than 19,500 vetting applications by the GAA so far this year. This brings our numbers to almost 130,000 GAA coaches who have been vetted over the last few years. The awareness at local level that coaches may no longer work with children after 1 January 2018 without having completed the vetting process appears to have had a major impact. These processed statistics for 2017 do not include the vetting applicants processed by Ulster GAA through AccessNI, (4,000 per annum) or the vetting carried out by LGFA or the Camogie Association. The forthcoming Child Welfare Information Seminar on 11 November 2017 will discuss the manner in which we can assure the relevant authorities that all GAA coaches working with children are vetted by 1 January 2018 and failing this, how we can remove such coaches - albeit on a temporary basis if necessary. The Association, in collaboration with others, is engaged in discussions to permit the recognition of vetting on an All-Ireland basis whether the vetting is processed by the GAA through the National Vetting Bureau (Gardaí) or by AccessNI. www.gaa.ie/the-gaa/child-welfare-and-protection/vetting All Vetting queries should be forwarded to [email protected] All Child Welfare & Protection queries to [email protected] Football Hurling Club General Football Hurling Club General GAA’S NATIONAL CLUB DRAW IS GIVING YOUR CLUB THE CHANCE TO RAISE UP TO €20,000 RISK FREE! hat would your Club do Once logged in, details of Ticket Purchasers with €20,000? The GAA’s can be filled in online as well as on the tickets National Club Draw 2018 themselves. Clubs must ensure that they have is in full swing with initial accounted for and entered details online, or Wtickets gone out to County Liaison the tickets will not be entered into the Draw. Officers around the country and the opportunity there for your Club to raise If Clubs sell, account for and record a up to €20,000. minimum of 200 tickets, along with adhering to the terms of the Draw (found on the back All Gaelic Football, Hurling, Camogie, of every ticket) they will also be automatically Handball and Rounders Clubs are welcome entered into the Club Specific Draw. This to take part in this fantastic opportunity allows Clubs the chance to win even more, provided for Clubs. adding to the proceeds which they have already raised from ticket sales. Tickets cost €10 each and Clubs can sell 17 March 2017; Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael Aogán Ó Fearghail presents Michael Waldron, Catherine Sweeney, Darina Daly, Lawrence Daly and Frank Hyland, from Davitts GAA Club, in Mayo, who won “Highest sellers in Connacht” during up to 2000 tickets, retaining all proceeds In the Club Specific Draw, all clubs will be the presentation of prizes to the winners of the GAA National Club Draw at Croke Park in Dublin. made in the process. Ticket Purchasers entered into a Draw, with 3 clubs winning will be entered into the Draw, taking a prize of €5000. A separate draw for each place on March 8th, with the chance of county will be done in which 1 club will win winning a spectacular array of prizes, a prize of €1,000. And finally, the club with from a new Renault Dynamique, to a the highest ticket sales in each province will CONTACT DETAILS Premium All-Ireland Hurling and Football receive a prize of €1,000. Final Package for two. If you have any general enquiries or requests relating to the National Club Draw (tickets, flyers, posters, login details etc.), If your Club wishes to request a further Prizes are provided by Ard Chomhairle and allocation of tickets, they can contact their please contact your NCD County Liaison Officer or email the Presentation of Prizes will take place in corresponding County Liaison Officer or email Croke Park Stadium on March 17th, where [email protected]. Tickets can be [email protected] the winners will be invited to Croke Park to requested up until February 1st. All tickets collect their prize. must be returned to County Liaison Officers [email protected] by February 8th and should not be sent Clubs have received login details to The directly to Croke Park. Requests for additional For any technical issues, please contact the support team at Online Ticket Recording System from their tickets before Christmas must be in before correlating County Liaison Officer. If Clubs December 15th, as requests after this date are unsure of their login details, they can [email protected]. cannot be guaranteed to be sent out before email [email protected]. the Christmas break. Football Hurling Club General DID €9M – The amount of money paid by 70% of this fund goes the GAA nationally every year to the on medical expenses INJURY BENEFIT FUND YOU Injury Benefit Fund KNOW? he GAA has entered into What is the Preferred Medical Provider who present at these hospitals/clinics quality healthcare to our registered members Preferred Medical Provider Initiative? following an accidental bodily injury sustained and enhance our commitment to Player Medical Agreements with a network of Through the operation of the GAA while playing in an official competitive match/ Welfare. hospitals and clinics countrywide Injury Benefit Fund, which costs Cumann sanctioned challenge match or taking part Twith effect from the 1st October 2017. Lúthchleas Gael €9,000,000 to fund per in an official supervised training session on Who are the Preferred Medical Providers? year, medical expenses make up over a team registered under the Fund and for The following are the list of Preferred Medical The key aim is to help reduce medical 70% of the claims payments issued. Given which full payment of registration fees has Providers who have agreed to work with us on costs and to deliver quality healthcare to this significant cost, Cumann Lúthchleas been received in Croke Park. Furthermore, this initiative. It is our intention to build working our registered members through the GAA Gael approached hospitals and clinics Cumann Lúthchleas Gael have also obtained relationships with the listed providers in the long- Injury Benefit Fund.