Unleashing 'The Blue Wave' A Strategy for Dublin GAA - Croke Park

A STRATEGY FOR DUBLIN GAA 2011-2017
Dublin GAA, in responding to the need to serve communities that have a
desire for GAA activity, have created four club development models which
have been tailored to meet the challenges of community club growth in an
urban setting. These include:
MODEL 1: DEVELOPMENT OF AN EXISTING CLUB
This involves the development of an existing club with interventions focused
on the inputs to club growth.
MODEL 2: EXISTING LARGE CLUB WITH MULTIPLE NURSERIES TO
GO-GAMES HUBS
This involves a large club with an extended hinterland setting up a separate
Nursery to Go-Games structure in a location with sufficient population and
localised identity. The desired outcome would be that a new sense of
community would develop and generate a separate club.
MODEL 3: NEW VOLUNTEER-LED CLUB
This involves the formation of a new volunteer-led club from a community of
spatial concentration of population. This process would be driven by an
existing volunteer base
MODEL 4: HEAVILY SUPPORTED CLUB
The model is focused on the formation of a new club in an area, without a
significant demand for GAA activity, but with a large population base. The
lack of demand for GAA activity may be due to severe socioeconomic
problems or presence of a large new-Irish national population. This model
requires significant intervention and could compromise the volunteer ethos.
The ongoing work on the development models for clubs must continue in
order to ensure that the Association has the tools and capacity to have a
presence in all the areas of Dublin.
The Strategic Committee proposes the division of Dublin into ten Local Area
Development Regions, (LADRs) to allow the County Committee to work
closely with the existing clubs in the region to determine what actions must
be undertaken to advance the Association in the area. This regionalised
approach is suited to an expanding county like Dublin where it can take a
better and more detailed account of the strength of the GAA and the unique
characteristics and challenges of the different areas within the local region.
This initiative should be viewed solely as a tool to grow the GAA in the
county and it is not proposed to entail any changes to the games programme
or the representative status of Dublin’s inter-county teams.
3.6 » Ladies Gaelic Games
In 2002 the Gaelic games Integration Task Force was established to give
expression to the wishes of the membership of Cumann Luthchleas Gael,
Cumann Camógaíochta and Cumann Peil Gael na mBán that there be closer
links between all three organisations and that the possibility of joint/overall
membership be explored.
The members recognised the following benefits for all three Associations
and for the community:
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Increase in membership
Increase in numbers playing our games
Increase in the numbers of voluntary workers
Additional skills and expertise
Sharing of experience
Encouraging the family ethos
An inclusive Association
All three Associations can be truly involved with the community.
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