GAA reveals details of Club Forum

The GAA have announced details of their upcoming Club Forum which will be held in Croke Park on 9 February.

The forum, which will involve representatives from over 300 clubs, is intended as one of a series of initiatives which will contribute to the development of a National Strategic Plan which will be launched later in the year by incoming GAA Director General Paraic Duffy.

The development of the plan will involve an extensive consultation process which will see the GAA canvassing a broad range of views from across a wide spectrum of Irish society and from within the organisation itself.

Each County committee will be nominating ten club representatives to attend the forum where they will be involved in a series of workshops covering many areas of GAA activity.

The forum has been designed to allow discussion on key aspects of policy and to elicit feedback as to the direction and emphasis that club members feel the GAA should be taking over the next five years.
 
Duffy said that the forum would play an important role in the development of the National Strategic Plan: ‘It is intended that the plan will identify priority areas for the association in the short to medium term, outline our goals in these areas and most importantly, how we intend to achieve them.

‘The club forum will be the first step in identifying what club members see as the main areas of immediate concern for the association.’

The Monaghan man added that the forum would have featured representation from every single club in the country, but that the numbers involved would have proven unmanageable.