The Coaching Strategy for Ireland has been developed in partnership with the Irish Sports Council (ISC) and Sport Northern Ireland (Sport NI).  This follows an extensive consultation process with coaches, athletes, national governing bodies of sport and other relevent agencies.

The Tutor Graduation Ceremony will take place in the University of Limerick on December 1st 2007 as part of the National Coaching Development Programme. Tutors play an enormously important role within every National Governing Body, specifically in the design, delivery and review of coach education programmes.  

The Graduation ceremony will take place at the Kilmurray Village, University of Limerick, details as follows:    

Saturday         1st December 2007

Thanks to all those who attended the tutor in-service course.  Click on link to view the presentation files from the in-service weekend. (Please note this page is password protected).

Book your place now for the National Coaching Conference on the 18th of November. We have assembled a fantastic array of top class presenters for the conference which is focused on juvenile development.

Liam Moggan (NCTC) has recently returned from Lima, Peru where he successfully presented a Tutor Development program for the F.E.I. (Federation Equestrian Internationale). Tutors for six South American countries travelled to Peru to attend the Tutor Development course. Liam is pictured here with some tutors on the course.

Bookings for this course are now being accepted from NGBs.

LtoR are Harold McGahern, Katie O’Hara, Ian Fearon, Patricia Lawlor, Alison Mastin, John Ledingham, Susanne Macken, William Micklem, Tom Freyne, Frank Glynn, Niall Quirke, Brian MacSweeney and Declan O’Leary (NCTC)

Alan Swanton from the NCTC has travelled with the Irish Boxing Squad to provide a video analysis service for the boxing squad.  

Gary Keegan (High Performance Director) in interview with  Brendan Mooney (Irish Examiner) annonced himself very pleased with the video-analysis service. 

The upcoming CODES International Conference on Community Development
Through Sport will take place on the 19th of October in Cork
City, Ireland. For more information and to book your place for the
conference, click here.

Well done to Derek Malone for organising the strength and conditioning clinic held on the 13th Oct 2007, which was held in Dromroe Hall.

There were four main speakers, who each provided interesting presentations in their chosen fields. First up was Johnson McEvoy who spoke on the topic of injury prevention. He was followed by Drew Harrisson who discussed eccentric training, Drew was followed by John Kiely who spoke on strength & conditioning. Finally Derek took his turn and discussed proper stretching and warm-up techniques.

Do you play badminton?  How long is it since you last played badminton?  Have you ever wanted to try badminton?

Now an annual event, Badminton Ireland are holding National Badminton Week 2007 from the 13th - 21st October 2007 as a kick off to the badminton season.  This initiative which was started by the Badminton Union of Ireland three years ago - becoming an international festival when the Badminton England, Badminton Scotland and Welsh Badminton joined in last year!!!

The original Lucozade Sport Education consisted of 4 workshops Fuel & Fluid for Sport, Get Fit for Sport, Planning for Success and the Female Athlete. Seven hundred and fifty three of these workshops have been delivered at no cost to Schools, Clubs, Local Sport Partnerships, NGB’s and others.

Pictured at the European Coaching Council are l-r Declan O'Leary (NCTC), Kyle Philpotts (UK PGA), Hayley Harrison (NCTC) , An other, Ladislav Petrovic (ICSE Hungary), Front row Catherine Bird (NCTC) and John Bales (ICCE).