PRO Update 13.04.2016
Offaly GAA PR Committee Round-Up
Weekend Championship Programmes
At last weekend’s senior club championship games Offaly PR Committee introduced a combined weekend programme. This programme covers all senior and intermediate games over the weekend. Going forward these programmes will be available for all senior hurling and football club championship games and also intermediate games, when they are scheduled the same weekend as senior. Money generated from these programmes will be invested in coaching & games development and other initiatives organised by the pr committee. Thanks to all supporters who purchased a programme last weekend and to members of St Rynagh’s, Birr and Kilcormac/Killoughey Clubs for selling these on the day.
PR Committee 2016: Sheila Maloney, John Ryan, Ciara Spain Brendan Minnock and Kenny Franks (PRO)
Coaching & Games Development – Upcoming Courses:
Fundamental Workshop (The Session will concentrate on activities to develop agility, balance, coordination, running, jumping, throwing and catching skills. The workshop will be of particular interest to Nursery Coaches and U8 Coaches.) Venue: Rhode Hall( across from National school) Date: 13th of April Time: 7pm to 9pm Coaches: Keith McGuinness/Liam O’Reilly
Young Whistlers (Go Games will commence Monday the 9th of May and this is the opportunity for all clubs to have qualified Young Whistlers. Please note this course is for attendees of 15 years old and upwards) Venue: O’Connor Park, Date: 16th of April, Time: 10am to 1pm
All-Ireland U-21 Football Semi Finals
O’Connor Park will play host to the All-Ireland U-21 Football Semi-Finals this Saturday. Dublin will take on Mayo at 2:45pm, followed by Monaghan v Cork. Both games will be shown live on TG4.
Offaly Minor Hurlers
Congratulations to the Offaly Minor hurlers on their 1-15 to 1-12 victory over Laois last Saturday. Trailing by 6 points at half time Offaly showed great character and heart in the 2nd half and grew stronger as the game went on. Offaly will play Kilkenny now on the 23rd of April in the Leinster Quarter Final. Well done to management team of Ned O’Connor, Stephen Byrne, Brian Troy and Paschal Hoctor
Offaly Minor Footballers
Offaly minor hurlers under the management of Padraig Murray will take on Dublin in Parnell Park on Saturday 16th April at 12 Noon. The very best of luck to all players and management.
Social Media
A new Offaly GAA website will be launched on Tuesday next the 19th of April. The website has been designed by Laird Design who also designed Monaghan, Armagh, Tyrone and Ulster GAA Sites. This user friendly website will ensure that all supporters are kept up-to-date with news, fixtures and results, coaching & games development and basically all things Offaly GAA! We are currently looking for volunteers to help with the updating of the website. If you have WordPress experience and are interested please email Kenny Franks @ pro.offaly@gaa.ie
Offaly GAA are very active on Twitter where we have 15.4k followers and on Facebook also.
