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Irish Flying Disc Association Newsletter Irish Flying Disc Association Newsletter
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Presidents Address Hello All, Welcome to the second IFDA newsletter. In it, you’ll find a plethora of information varying from tournament reports to the trials and tribulations of a National team, with the history of one of the top Irish teams in there too, as well as information on the committees work this past year and information on the AGM. This newsletter was Paul Cronin’s brainchild, to provide an insight into the committee’s activities, as well as providing a non mailing list outlet for people’s reports, news and photos. If you want to make your voice heard to your ultimate brethren, please e-mail ifdanewsletter@gmail.com. The role of president within the IFDA is not like in a lot of organisations, where I would be a figurehead shaking hands and kissing babies (or vice versa). It is more of a coordinating role, keeping an eye on all of the committee’s work and liaising with other organisations. I’d like to thank the entire committee for their tireless work so far this year. I’ve been absolutely amazed by how much initiative and hard work has been shown in the year since the AGM. Also, a big thanks to the countless people in the ultimate community who put in a huge amount of work in promoting and developing the sport, whether it be through the running of tournaments, captaincy of teams or facilitation of pick up. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. Irish ultimate is currently in a transitional phase from a small to a medium-sized community, it’s refreshing to turn up to each tournament and see new faces (no offence to all the old faces, of course). It is no longer the case that a tournament in Ireland suffers because one team is overseas, which is very healthy. This was evidenced recently when a well-attended Cork Beach took place while both the Ireland Open and Mixed Tour teams were abroad. On the pitch, the standard of Irish ultimate has improved incredibly quickly, due to the hard work of captains and coaches and an innate hunger in the community to learn and play. This year already, we saw DCU take UK women’s indoor nationals, Ireland Open beat Germany and The Netherlands in Berlin and the Irish Women beating a host of big names (Primavera Olandese, Leeds and France to name but a few) on the way to the final in Amsterdam. All of these would have been unthinkable even a couple of years ago, and teams are now beginning to see Ireland as an ultimate force to be respected. Naturally, we don’t want this improvement to come at the cost of spirit and luckily it hasn’t, with Ireland (European Beach), Trinity (University Mixed Outdoor Nationals, UK) and Ireland (Nations Cup & Worlds) among the recent teams to win spirit prizes abroad.
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To facilitate the changing face of the game here in Ireland, the committee felt that a strategic plan should be drawn up. We have recently appointed a team to put together such a plan under the guidelines set out by the Irish Sports Council. This will give a sense of direction to the work of committees and set basic objectives for the sport. It will set out priorities for developing the game, whether it is the growth of the club scene, the promotion of ultimate in schools or focusing on developing ultimate in different parts of the country, etc. More on this planning team will follow in the coming weeks. All that’s left is to congratulate the national teams that competed in Vancouver and to hope that everyone enjoyed the past year as much as we have. I hope to see a lot of you at the AGM, hat tournament and the Awards Ball; it promises to be a great weekend and a good way to finish off the year. If you ever have any comments, questions, suggestions or criticisms, please e-mail me at president@irishultimate.com. Regards, David Misstear President Irish Flying Disc Association
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Cork Beach Hat 2008, Ballynamona Beach, Shanagarry, Co. Cork. June 7th & 8th
Dónal Murray On Friday the 6th June, Ultimate players from UK, Germany, USA, Mexico and all over Ireland descended on The Cottage pub in Cork City, to get the Cork Beach 2008 tournament under way. Once everyone had arrived and player fees were paid the draw took place for all to see. Using the online registration people had given themselves a ranking from 1 to 6, and this was then used in the draw to ensure that all teams contained as many similar ranking players as possible, and that each team had the same overall number of ranking points. This system produced the following teams: Thundercats: Mark Earley (Capt) David Rickard Dónal Murray Heather Gill David Walsh Celine Larkin
Power Rangers: Deirdre O’Breasail (Capt) Antonio Ladron de Guevara Richard Buggy David McMullin Paddy Roche Peter Moran Grainne Murray
Transformers: Lucy Barnes (Capt) Mark Loy Alan Breathnach Dan Farrell John Paul Meaney Allan Tong Tara Muzumdar
Captain Planet: Betsy Calkins (Capt) Johnny Flahavan Alex Widmann Richard Hobson Yasin Mammeri Eoin Savage Orla O’Connor
TMNT: Colm Bowden (Capt) Luan McKenna Kevin Doherty Sinéad Flemming Pádraig Flynn Aidan Daly Deirdre Hegarty
Care Bears: Aidan Barnes (Capt) Adrian Keane Emmett Cleary Mark Fanning Paul Nolan Hannah Calkins Sarah McLoughlin
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Each captain then collected and distributed a player pack for everyone on their respective teams. These consisted of: A personalised team jersey Toilet roll Bin bag Tournament brochure (with player photos, rules, tide information, weather forecast, interesting articles, the new European spirit scoring system and the weekend schedule) Sweets Safe sex pack and postcard The Friday night hosts were: Deirdre O’Breasail Dónal Murray Meabh Boylan Christian Dang Antonio Ladron de Guevara Sinead Flemming Photo by Mark Earley
Early next morning, the newly formed teams headed down to the beach to pitch tent and set up camp. After a bulldozer cleared the beach the day before, the night tide brought in a lot of seaweed again. Gráinne, Sinead and Dee tried to clear some playing surface on the sandy part of beach but once the tied went out, a flat, hard, water laden surface was revealed. This was the best playing surface on offer and was quickly morphed into a playing surface. Two pitches were set up and eventually lined, and the games got under way. Games were up to 11 points with a time cap at 35 minutes. Every team was to play each other once and then the two top teams would battle it out to determine the winner. There were pitch restrictions as a result of an incoming tide on the Saturday and as a result, games were cut short and therefore, unfortunately, the placement games were sacrificed. Team food packs were given out during the day by Sinead, and plenty of water was at hand in the campsite and at the side of pitches. Water bottles were refilled, more players arrived, and the Saturday night party began. The BBQ equipment came and food was served by the Cork ladies, Sinead and Dee. Some Cork players got the bonfire started, and a stereo was at hand to keep the music flowing. Sunday arrived, and people realised that what they felt the night before wasn’t muscle pain but sunburn, and many players dropped out and headed home early because of it. Also, the tenderising effect of the playing surface on the flesh of the feet combined with sunburn on the soles of feet made running very difficult. After the initial round robin games, the final was left to Thundercats and TMNT to battle it out. The first few points were tense and the game was very close, but Thundercats eventually pulled away at the end to grind out the result and win the tournament.
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Some fantastic prizes were on offer including, champagne, silver watches, gold medals, trophies and so on. The tournament results were: Winners: Runners up: Spirit:
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Most Valuable Player: Aidan Barnes Most Spirited Player: Luan McKenna King of the Beach: Antonio Ladron de Guevara Queen of the Beach: Deirdre O'Breasail Lifts were given to everyone to help catch buses and trains home and the tidy up followed. The spirit scoring was all very high and I think it shows that everyone played hard, fair and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Well done and thanks to everyone who played. Hopefully 2009 will be even better, and bigger, more ambitious plans are already in place. Special thanks to: Sinead, Dee, Celine, Grainne, Dave, Antonio, Meabh, Christian, Flahavans, Rockstar, Gerald McCarthy, Jackie Lennox’s, UCC Student Union, Mark Earley, The Cottage Pub. Cork Beach Tournament Directors: Rose Glancy and Dónal Murray
Photo by Mark Earley
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Differing views of summer league Dominick Smyth Since the summer of 2005, Herbert Park in Ballsbridge has played host to the Dublin Summer League. This year, I took the chance to sit down with some of the players, of all different experience levels, to find out a little more about the league - from the players point of view!
Players Signed Up Teams Round Robin Games Most Bonus Points Bonus Points attained by The Bears Width of End zone near Ballsbridge Width of End zone near Donnybrook Empty Plastic Bottles
Interviewer: Dominick Smyth Interviewees: Mike O’Meara, Amy Moffat, Grainne McCarthy, Richard Buggy, Fintan D’Arcy, Alex Weinberg & Roger Beatty (Podge)
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Dominick: How did you all find out about the league? Mike:
Ah I’ve been involved from the start. I’ve been part of all the other leagues over the years and I guess I heard about this year’s through the Pookas mailing list.
Amy, Fintan, Buggy & Podge: Yeah, Pookas for us too. Also, it was on the web site. Buggy:
And people had been talking about it for a while.
Podge:
I also knew it was going to be on since I’ve played in it two of the last three years!
Grainne:
I saw it on the web site too but only after some friends who had played in all the beginners tournaments told me about it. I’m kind of new to all of this.
Alex:
Coming from abroad, I actually went looking for stuff. I was on a mission to find a team to play with for the summer so I could stay in shape.
Photo by Paul Cronin
Dominick: Ah the wonders of the internet. Glad to hear that some people were talking about it as well. While the league was going on, what did you think of the atmosphere and standard of play? that was around? Grainne:
Everyone was very friendly. It wasn’t a big deal to anybody that I was a beginner. Everyone just seemed happy I made it out!
Mike:
The beginners were excellent. The commitment they showed was wonderful. And the experienced players were really good for teaching the jist of the game rather than have people just run around.
Buggy:
The standard of play was higher than I expected. Except for your team Amy.
Amy:
I don’t know what it was. We were all good players; we just didn’t connect on the pitch. We had fun though.
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Fintan:
Yeah, it was great fun. It was a relaxed and fun way to meet up with people once a week —like a mini re-union!
Podge:
And meet new people. People I’ll continue to play with. I liked having a big squad so we didn’t have to worry if people dropped out (which was unfortunate) or couldn’t make one week.
Alex:
It was nice for me to find ultimate was the same across the water but also really interesting how much more relaxed the game was. People not stressing about fouls or calls.
Dominick: Sounds like you all enjoyed it. Can I ask how? important a part of your summer was it? Buggy:
It was what I did on Mondays. Every Monday.
Fintan:
It got me outside!
Amy:
Yeah, with work I would very easily have just stayed in when I got home.
Podge:
I wasn’t working but I’d say the same. It gave me a great chance to play even though I wasn’t involved with the national team this summer.
Alex:
Couldn’t agree more. I got out of my apartment AND I got to exercise AND I met new people, all while playing ultimate. I’d say the league was a big factor in me enjoying my summer in Dublin.
Mike:
For me it went beyond that, it was getting out to see the same faces from my local community. And building up such a good relationship with the council and the local businesses is great.
Grainne:
How important was it? I’ll be talking about it in my Leaving Cert Irish oral next spring!
Photo by Paul Cronin
Dominick: Wow, I didn’t expect it to be that important. Great. So, to finish up, would you recommend the league to others? All:
DEFINITELY!!
Grainne:
It was so easy to get involved. Anybody could come along and be welcomed.
Fintan:
It was a great way to learn with no pressure.
Buggy:
It was also nice seeing people who don’t otherwise have a team.
Mike:
I’d go so far as to recommend the league structure to other people. It could so easily be used elsewhere to run multiple leagues.
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Podge:
I’d go along with that. People might start playing in the league and then end up setting up their own team. If it will help, I’ll put up some flyers in my area next time?
Alex:
Hell, I’d recommend ultimate to anyone at anytime!
Sparky:
Are you all talking about summer league? I heard it was great.
Dominick: Ha ha. Thank you Sparky, we’re just finishing up though. Thank you all for your time and I’m glad you enjoyed the league. Hopefully next years will be even better.
Photo by Paul Cronin
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Naoise Murphy Mixed Tour 1, Brighton June 7th & 8th
Kevin Timoney 'Naoise Murphy' was the Irish mixed club representative at Mixed Tour 1 in Brighton, taking place over June 7/8 2008. The team was designed after some brainstorming by the IFDA. With two National teams training feverishly for the World Championships in Canada, there was a lack of competitive action for non National team players. As such, the IFDA facilitated the establishment of a new, mixed club, with the aim of travelling to the UK to compete at Tour events to gain from the experience of playing at a high standard tournament. The standard at the tournament in Brighton was very high, with a record number of clubs taking part. The venue was excellent, offering two days of sunshine-filled ultimate on great pitches, and a beach party was arranged for Saturday night, much to the delight of all teams. Seemingly everyone was delighted not to be marooned in the moors of Mansfield that particular weekend. Naoise's relatively inexperienced line of five guys and six girls struggled to keep up with the other teams during Saturday's games, and it was quickly realised that the seeding of 24th out of 40 teams was probably too high. Succumbing to injury setbacks on Sunday, Naoise battled on, at times with only three guys who had to play every point. While victory in any of the games was never in truth a likely occurrence, Naoise really did improve noticeably with each game, not only based on the increasing score tally. Everyone learned a lot, as can only happen when repeatedly faced with more experienced, fitter, and better-drilled opposition. Squad: Aideen Dowling, Alex Weinberg (c), Courtney Hosp (pictured below), Dave Smyth, Jason Milligan, Katie O'Brien, Kevin Timoney, Paul Cronin, Rose Schmaltz, Sam Smith, Siobhan Colivet.
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Profile of a Club: Broccoli Ultimate Mark Earley The Beginning
Broccoli started in late October 2005 and was the brainchild of a group of UCD alumni players, lead by the ever-willing Rob Kiely. It began as a team made up of 7 friends who had played the game at a competitive level over the years and were looking for Ultimate after college. Most importantly, they enjoyed each others’ company and wanted a laugh. A name was quickly chosen, jerseys printed and off they went to Cork for their first games. More about that later though… The Ethos
Behind every team, in all sports, lies an ethos or a concept. Each teams very identity is defined by it, be it the Total Football of the Dutch or the never-say-die attitude of Munster rugby. Given that Broccoli was founded by players who’d been through college together and who were all friends before the club began, the club was always going to be about enjoying yourself. On the field there is no shouting at each other, no blame and few discussions with other teams. A trophy cabinet with many Spirit Awards can vouch for this! Off the pitch the team socialise together often, including an annual Green Tie Dinner and a couple of tables at the IFDA Ball. The club prides itself on being a team driven by a will to enjoy playing Ultimate and to show respect to others on and off the pitch, even when losing. The Results
The first team was put together for the infamous Cork Open and despite playing iron man for the entire weekend, ‘the Brocs’ left the second capital with the Spirit Award and a runners-up prize. It was a great start for the club, one from which a lot would grow. Winter League saw Broccoli take on all the teams in Photo by Mark Earley Dublin and win. In Sligo, a few months later, another second place to JC. The summer of 2006 saw the club take to Brugges, where it rained and to Basel where we competed in 40 degree heat and brought home another Spirit prize. Since then there’s been two tough losses at the quarter-final stage in Cork, another Winter League victory and a tough final loss at Limerick’s first Siege. Summers spent focused on the National team have meant Broccoli has suffered, but the club is ready to go again. The Rivalry
Since 2005 Broccoli have been ever-present on the domestic circuit and have developed a healthy rivalry with the other Dublin-based team, Johnny Chimpo. Be it at the cold nights of Winter League, in the spidercovered Cork Open or in the sweaty halls of Sligo, the two teams seem to meet at every turn with ‘the Chimps’ winning most of the battles to date. A showdown in Cork is yet to happen, and with JC winning last year’s Cork Open and Siege of Limerick there’s only one club proving their potential at the moment. That said, this year has started well for the Greens. Despite the loss of key players (including club captain Rob
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Kiely), an influx of skilled and athletic players combined with a drive to become a more organised, better drilled and more focused outfit should prove a winning combination as the year goes on. Mixed Veg.
With a few girls on the club’s roster and the annual co-ed DUB tourney taking place on our doorstep, it seemed like a natural step to found an actual mixed branch of the club. The result was called Mixed Veg, a mix of Broccoli players, girlfriends and friends from all over. Mixed Veg has played in four tournaments Good Friday 2006 which we won, DUB 2006 where we won Spirit and came 3rd after a narrow defeat to Throwing Shapes (another Dublin based co-ed team) in the semis, Mixed Tour 2 in the UK where we finished mid-table and DUB 2007 which we won. These strong performances are down to the strength of the girls and the fun the team have playing together. There’s even been talk of following a more co-ed path in the future but those plans have been shelved for now. The Future
As with other Dublin clubs, Broccoli has ambition to grow into a club team able to compete across both the UK and Europe. At the end of the year are the prestigious European Ultimate Club Championships and the year after sees the World Club Championships hit Prague. Whether or not this club will attend one or both remains to be seen, but one thing is for sure, Broccoli is sick of runners up spots, and with young talent, the desire and the necessary guidance to succeed all in place there’s no doubting that the future looks greener.
Photo by Mark Earley
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Ireland Women 2008 – The Road to Vancouver Linda Barry Women’s ultimate in Ireland was transformed by the EUC07 experience, which saw an extraordinary advance on the previous international outings in terms of level of commitment, regularity of training and standard of play. Still, it was unclear whether Ireland would field a women’s team for WUGC08 in Vancouver. A meeting was held in October 2007 to plan the upcoming season. It quickly became clear that there was eagerness to play women’s ultimate, to improve as individual players and not to let the onceevery-four-year opportunity of participating in a World Championship event pass us by. A squad of 18 was selected over the course of two trial days in January. An incredible 35 women tried out over the course of these dates, coming from around Ireland and the UK to bid for a place on the Irish team. The line-up, announced at the beginning of February, included four players who have played in every international event since the Irish women’s team’s debut at EUC03 (Sparky Booker, Yvonne Halpin, Fiona McDonald and Sarah Jane Monaghan) as well as five new caps (Heather Barry, Rebecca McRory, Fiona Mernagh, Finola Shannon and Katie Twidwell). Photo by Paul Cronin Leaving little time to sit back and revel in being selected for the national team, the fitness plan kicked in from the second week of February. There was something in there to turn everyone’s stomach – distance running, shuttles, pushups, fartleks – with the far off promise of washboard abs and a Zaytoon kebab to get us through the 24 weeks.
Training began at the end of February with a session on deep cutting from Cian and a team piss up, both of which gave rise to catch-phrases that would last the whole season. March turned out to be a rough month with disagreements about the training schedule, sessions cancelled due to flooded pitches and exasperation over paying so much money, putting ourselves through the gruelling fitness plan and never actually getting to play together! In mid-April we had our first full weekend session with our new coach – Lucy Barnes of Brutesquad, a top US women’s club – and this marked a turning point. A new voice and an outside perspective boosted the work ethic at training and Lucy’s attention to detail, understanding of the game and time for each individual player couldn’t have come at a better time with our first warm-up tournament just around the corner.
Photo by Paul Cronin
Our competitive season (as ‘Biddy Murphy’) started in May at Tom’s Tourney in Brugge, with a match against YAKA (the French women’s team – our closest rivals from EUC07). It was a whitewash in YAKA’s favour – but which ended up having positive consequences as we resolved never to go down that easily again. Our only other losses of the weekend were in a close match against
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Tequila Boom Boom (10-7) and to Wonderful Copenhagen, which we avenged when we beat them in the final placing game for 5th spot at the tournament. Throughout the preparations for WUGC08 we implemented a training schedule based on less frequent team sessions but with maximum turnout and high intensity. This amounted to one team session/weekend per month from February to April and two per month from May to July. Thursday evening sessions began in mid-April for the Dublin players and ran weekly right through until we left for Vancouver. This weeknight training was focused on the national team but was open to any other female players who wanted to come along and improve their skills. Some players took real advantage of this throughout the season and this allowed them to really step up aspects of their game as well as to get an insight into the intensity and commitment involved in representing Ireland. We also ran more relaxed sessions approximately once a month, on Sundays when there wasn’t national team training or a major tournament, aimed at those not on the WUGC team. We arrived at Windmill Windup in Amsterdam with our full team playing competitively together for the first time – but also for the last time before WUGC08! It was a chance for us to play our separate Offence and Defence lines and to test our level against a number of other national teams. We came out strong on offence right from the start and as the weekend wore on our defence became much more confident, aggressive and intelligent. On day one we won three out of four games, leaving us in a strong position and really geared up going into day two. After bageling the Spanish National Team in the morning, we had an epic game against Primavera Olandese which ended with our O line going out for the sudden death point. They did what O lines do best – scored the point and put us into the quarters! Two convincing wins against Leeds and YAKA gave us a spot in the final where we unfortunately weren’t on top form against a small but strong Italian Women’s Team. We were delighted with our performance and our results overall and still had six weeks to Photo by Paul Cronin fine tune our game before WUGC. On top of the training and money commitment that went into playing on the national team, each of the players was asked to take on an extra job on the PR/fundraising side of things. The captains of the open and women’s teams, along with Katie Twidwell, put a huge amount of time into the hunt for large scale corporate sponsorship to offset a portion of the €100,000 cost of sending the teams to Vancouver. This didn’t pay out as much as we hoped, although hopefully we have set in motion a process that will generate sponsorship for future teams. Una Morrison managed the PR for the teams for a second year and we built on last year’s media coverage with two pieces in the Irish Times, a slot on Newstalk Radio as well as extensive local coverage. Laura McGrath organised for the teams to plant trees in the grounds of DCU to offset the carbon emissions of our trip to Canada. Our fundraising drive, coordinated by Katie and run by members of the two teams, succeeded in all of its aims – to raise money, get the wider ultimate community involved with the national teams and raise the profile of the sport in Ireland. Many European countries opted not to send women’s teams to Vancouver because of the cost, the prospect of getting beaten and the decision to focus on developing women’s ultimate at home. Yes, WUGC is expensive and involves a big commitment in the months leading up to the tournament, but the Irish women’s
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experience over the past two years has shown that, win or lose, preparing for and competing in a World Championship event is the single biggest thing that can develop the level of play.
Back Row Left to Right: Heather Barry, Katie Twidwell, Rebecca McRory, Yvonne Halpin, Liz Shaffalitzky, Ciara Fitzpatrick, Dayne Ortved, Fiona Mernagh, Laura McGrath Front Row Left to Right: Finola Shannon, Sarah Jane Monaghan, Catherine Gainey, Fiona McDonald (C), Anne Booker, Linda Barry (C), Dee O’Breasail, Emer Mernagh
Photo by Paul Cronin
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Committee Corner The IFDA committee has found it to be a very enjoyable experience to work with so many members of the Irish ultimate community, all with an interest in developing Irish ultimate players of all levels. A synopsis of the activities and initiatives which the committee undertook or facilitated is listed below. The committee:
Co-ordinated with all uni-women's captains to get all ladies playing on the Irish ladies mailing list at the start of the college year. Liaised with the women's captains about Irish women's indoor nationals Planned and ran Women’s Indoor Nationals, Open Indoor Nationals, Rose Bowl, Beer Bowl & All Ireland Mixed Championships. Notified/encouraged all Irish ladies and all universities of the Tuesday night women's sessions and the coaching sessions run in UCD. Co-ordinated the meeting regarding whether or not to send a team to WUGC. Organised selection of captains for WUGC. Did the initial advertising/co-ordination of Naoise Murphy for Mixed tour. Although they only made one tour outing, we hope it will be more next year and possibly other mixed tournies to accommodate players in the country who don't have a club team and therefore don't get the chance to play these types of tournaments. Worked with senior members of the Irish ultimate community to run 'Pre-Pick Up Clinics'. These were one hour sessions focusing on a single skill with emphasis on developing and improving player ability while also challenging people to experiment with new ways to do things. Ran an open training session, using drills from Irish Open training sessions and a series of 'Defence' sessions, in co-operation with Brian MacDevitt, Cian Ó Morain and UCDD, for both men and women. Assembled an IFDA Kit Bag with discs donated by clubs and individuals. This equipment was used, and can be used in the future, for any session with a non-ultimate group such as a school or city council group. Organised experienced, national level coaches, to travel to Galway and Limerick to coach at SouthWest Regional Leagues. Gave an introductory session to everyone that signed up for summer league before it began, with the help of the members of both national teams and the summer league organisers. Ran a number of coaching sessions for children through Dublin City Council, Fingal County Council and a number of private organisations (schools and sports clubs). Began work on creating and running an IFDA Coaching Course. Initial plans to have this course ready for the beginning of the new college year have not been met but work should continue on this in the near future. In the interim, an informal session was organised that had roughly 15 new coaches from all over Ireland in attendance. Continued with efforts to find a better insurance scheme for the IFDA, to re-develop irishultimate.com and to enable more adults outside university to continue playing (beginners tournaments and Winter League). Developed a PE Teachers Ultimate Frisbee clinic. NB - since this clinic we have organised 2 more for the start of this school year, 1 in Dublin and 1 in Cork. The PEAI added the article to their September 2008 newsletter.
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Committed to organise Ireland’s first exclusive schools tournament on November 22nd. This will be an indoor tournament open to all schools of all levels. Hopefully this will be followed by an outdoor tournament in the New Year. Contacted university clubs to find out any issues that they may have wanted raised or addressed. Organised Indoor nationals, the same weekend as Whacking Day, which ran relatively smoothly. Has begun organising a University league for this year to encourage more contact and co-operation between clubs to organise fixtures. Weekends based in non-Dublin clubs will bring more ultimate to regional teams, in conjunction with established tournaments, such as Cork and Siege. Helped with the establishment of new University clubs in IT Tallaght, IADT & Griffith College.
As you can imagine the above initiatives took considerable time and effort to implement. The list, although long, is by no means extensive. If anything it is the tip of the iceberg with regards to the workload carried out by nine highly motivated and dedicated volunteers who wanted nothing more than to progress Irish ultimate. These people have sacrificed their time, experience and often patience in attempting to promote, improve and augment current practices. A huge effort was put in this year to having the committee work more closely and transparently with their electorate. We hope that this has helped to foster the community growth and trust in the organization. The committee consisted of: David Misstear, Andrea Fagan, Seamas Kinsella, Dominick Smyth, Laura McGrath, Ciara Fitzpatrick, Paul Cronin, Robert Kane & Robin Giller.
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IFDA AGM 7.30pm, Friday 3rd October 2008 Room 3051, Trinity College Dublin Draft Agenda: 1. Apologies 2. Approval of Minutes from previous AGM 3. President’s Report 4. Treasurer’s Report 5. Strategic Plan 6. Pick-up 7. Branding 8. Election of Officers 9. AOB
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IFDA Accounts for year 13-Sep-07 to 10-Sep-08 Date
Details
13 Sep 07
Balance Forward
17 Sep 07
Fees Qtr to 24 Aug 07
5 Oct 07
Discraft (200 discs)
17 Oct 07
Lodgement: Slab of Beer Tournament Profit
220.00
9 Nov 07
Lodgement 732176
160.00 1005.24
13 Nov 07
Chq 500077 (UPS delivery charge on discs)
194.93
810.31
Chq 500078 (Indoor Nats hall rental)
360.00
450.31
16 Nov 07
Debit Credit Balance 1575.74 9.02
1566.72
941.48
625.24 845.24
Lodgement 124502
40.00
490.31
Lodgement 124503
180.00
670.31
Lodgement 124504
367.00 1037.31
7 Dec 07
Lodgement 768418
1285.00 2322.31
10 Dec 07
Lodgement 462087
250.00 2572.31
19 Dec 07
Fees Qtr to 30 Nov 07
10 Jan 08
Chq 500079 (Insurance)
11 Jan 08
Lodgement 421810
14 Jan 08
Jump and Reach (100 EUC DVDs)
819.24
1468.94
23 Jan 08
Chq 500081 (irishultimate.com hosting)
241.99
1226.95
24 Jan 08
Lodgement 010094
6 Feb 08
Chq 500082 (Loan to Irish Ladies)
13 Feb 08
Lodgement 071093
25 Feb 08
Lodgement: Membership
18 Mar 08
Fees Qtr to 29 Feb 08
22 Apr 08
Lodgement: Intervarsities profit/Disc sales
30 Apr 08
Lodgement: Membership
15 May 08
Lodgement: Repayment Chq 500082
22 May 08
Chq 500084 (Printing/Binding Coaching Manuals) Chq 500085 (Travel for coaching)
4.83
2567.48
729.30
1838.18 450.00 2288.18
250.00 1476.95 208.00
1268.95 492.00 1760.95 15.00 1775.95
9.51
1766.44 622.00 2388.44 7.00 2395.44 208.00 2603.44
107.00
2496.44
59.91
2436.53
30 May 08
Sterling Draft; Mixed Tour 1 team fees
212.69
2223.84
6 Jun 08
Chq 500086 (Loan, Summer League pitch rental)
100.00
2123.84
300.00
1823.84
0.98
1822.86
nd
9 Jun 08
Chq 500083 (2 Ireland Open trial pitch rental)
16 Jun 08
Fees Qtr to 30 May 08
25 Jun 08
Lodgement 014163
450.00 2272.86
Issue 2
Volume 1
September 2008
Lodgement 014164 26 Jun 08
Discraft (300 discs, inc 100 for Irish squads)
4 Jul 08
Lodgement: Coaching cut
435.00 2707.86 1634.47
18.00 1091.39
Lodgement: SL loan repaid (Chq 500086) 8 Jul 08
11 Jul 08
100.00 1191.39
Chq 500087 (UPS delivery charge on discs)
188.43
1002.96
Chq 500088 (Equipment for weekly Pick-up)
14.00
988.96
Lodgement 920076* WFDF affiliation fees
14 Jul 08
Lodgement: Disc sales
16 Jul 08
Lodgement 897800
28 Jul 08
Chq 500089* Chq 500090 (IFDA grant to national teams)
22Aug 08
1073.39
Lodgement: Coaching Cut Lodgement: Summer League Profits
27 Aug 08
Lodgement: Summer League
10 Sep 08
Lodgement: Repayment of loan (see 26 Jun)
60.00 1048.96 280.13
768.83 48.00
816.83
296.00 1112.83 60.00
1052.83
500.00
552.83 12.25
565.08
475.00 1040.08 53.44 1093.52 545.00 1638.52
* A sponsorship cheque for €60 was mistakenly made out to the IFDA and not to the Irish national teams. This was lodged into the association’s account (lodgment 920076) and subsequently withdrawn and paid to the Irish national team’s account (chq 500089) Total Income:
7038.69
Total Expenditure: 6975.91 Total Profit/Loss:
62.78
More detailed accounts will be available at the AGM and will be emailed afterwards.