The GAA, the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and Camogie Association have announced details of a new Gaelic Games Coach Pathway.

For the first time, all three Associations with responsibility for the promotion of Gaelic Football, Hurling, Ladies Football and Camogie will have an aligned pathway and vision for coach development.

All coaches are at the heart of this new Pathway – and there will be a key focus on creating an effective coach development environment.

The Gaelic Games Coach Pathway follows on from the successful launch of the Gaelic Games Player Pathway in 2021.

The Coach Pathway has been created to mirror the Player Pathway, ensuring that coaches are provided with the knowledge, skill, and capacities to develop players within and across phases of the Gaelic Games Player Pathway – “just for me” and “just in time.”

The Pathway is also heavily informed by the cross-Association coach education study conducted in 2020 with over 10,500 coach respondents.

People identified a lack of time and other commitments as barriers to engaging in learning.

They said they wanted shorter, more bite-sized learning opportunities. Consequently, a key feature of the new approach is to provide flexible and modular courses.

By keeping the end goal in mind, and understanding the coaching pathway in its totality, coaches and other stakeholders can provide players with the level of support that they require at any moment along their developmental journey.

The Coach Pathway is grounded in three core elements aligned to the Gaelic Games Player Pathway, namely The Player, The Game, The Environment.

The Coach Pathway will exhibit a Coach ‘Learning Space’ that aims to reflect the variety of coaching needs, and the breadth of learning opportunities that should be provided for coaches.

This ‘Learning Space’ is accessible to all following the completion of the Introduction to Gaelic Games course, with the exception of core modules and specialist modules which have a pre-requisite of participants required to complete Award/Level 1 formal courses.

The Learning Management System (TOBAR), linked to Foireann, will power the delivery of the Coach Pathway.

All three Associations are committed to providing coaches with the right supports at the right time, which will enable them to individually empower themselves to engage with the many challenges they will face along their Coach Pathway journey.

Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael Larry McCarthy, Uachtarán Cumann Peil Gael na mBan Mícheál Naughton, Uachtarán Cumann Camógaíochta Hilda Breslin and Liam Moggan, Chair of the Coach Development Advisory Committee, were on hand to launch the Coach Player Pathway.

This announcement once again reinforces the commitment and joint approach to Games Development from all three Associations, and builds on previous collaborations such as Go Games, Féile, Club Leadership Development and ‘Be Ready to Play.’

For full details on the Gaelic Games Coach Pathway, visit: Gaelic Games Coaching Pathway | Tobar (gaa.ie)

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