David Courell
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622 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 21 May
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is our Clubmark program, which, for the benefit of the listeners, is effectively a quality standard.
And credit to the previous administration and those that embedded it in 2018, but it was a slow build.
And we're now at a point where 2026, we've said it's a mandatory requirement.
And that requires...
minimum standards across safeguarding across administration and governance elements of each and every club in the country which means that we have much more control oversight visibility and assurance around all those things that will help improve the standards now that places an additional burden on volunteers i see it in my own club and you reference it yourself you know how does everyone find the time to do the different courses etc but we're trying to play our part to make sure that
Yes, everyone still needs to get Garda vetting.
And unfortunately, that is a very paper intensive process.
And it's sort of infuriating because if you're involved in the GAA and the soccer, you have to do two separate processes.
Understood.
And, you know, I'm a board member of the Federation of Irish Sport, and it is probably one of the biggest challenges facing all sports or pretty much all social enterprises, to be honest, because volunteering is...
It's a really positive aspect of Irish society.
We've got a huge volunteering base in this country, but the lack of synergy in that system is something that continues to cause frustration.
But we are trying to play our part to unlock the other elements and make every other aspect that we can control as easy and accessible as possible.
So what you're referencing is what was called a lined calendar.
So we are the only country out of the 55 in Europe that do not play with a line calendar.
We have a split calendar where clubs and leagues can choose to play winter football or summer football.
Yes, we had identified that as being something that could potentially deliver benefits for the game, not because it would align with the League of Ireland, but by virtue of, as I've outlined ad nauseum already, the dearth of facilities that we have in this country.
Combine that with the bad weather that we feature.
Absolutely.
You know, come December and January, you can have weeks on end where kids aren't playing.
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