Antrim GAA is currently preparing a blueprint which is expected to lead to a dramatic increase in coaches for Belfast's clubs and schools.

Croke Park is prepared to make funding available for extra coaches in the city, according to Antrim GAA chairman Collie Donnelly.

"Paraic Duffy (GAA director-general) and Aogan O'Fearghail (GAA president) have been in dialogue with the Antrim county board and we are in the process of presenting a plan. This dialogue has been going on for some time," Donnelly told the Belfast Telegraph.

"We got together a small group of people to get this plan together, in conjunction with the south Antrim board and the Belfast clubs, that is going to reach out to the primary, secondary and grammar schools.

"They are giving the right vibes if we come up with something that is sustainable over a period of time."

He added: "The core of it would be coaching and games. It's not for infrastructure or capital investment. It will be troops on the field. I think currently Antrim have something like five coaches. We would be hoping to at least double that, or maybe more.

"We have to work it through, it has to be sustainable. I think in the past we have had lots of plans, but we need to make this work over a period of time."

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