FAQs

No, there is no official deadline set by head office, however counties are entitled to submit a bye-law that gives them a deadline within their respective county.

If you are looking to appeal you need to e-mail info@camogie.ie with all the relevant information including any correspondence in relation to your matter. This must be accompanied with the appeal fee of €250. If your appeal is successful, your fee will be returned to you.

Whatsapp is not considered an official form of correspondence for communication any Camogie information with your respective units. It is against our GDPR guidelines.

Please contact your county secretary who will request a password reset from the National Office. info@camogie.ie

At present only Club Secretaries and Club Children’s Officer e-mail accounts are available to Clubs.

No, you do not need a specific disability ticket. A general match ticket is required and entry on matchday is through the Premium Entrance on Jones’ Road. A Croke Park Disability Team member will be on hand to guide any users to the disability seating area. Please contact alan.malone@camogie.ie for further enquiries.

The Camogie Association offer four Referee courses:

1. First Whistle Course (Go Games)
2. Foundation Course
3. Refresher Course
4. Conversion Course (for hurling referees)

Funding options are available from various sources. In some Provinces, the Provincial Councils have a development grant fund available to Counties to apply to for relevant development work within the Counties. Sport Capital Grants from Sport Ireland and National Lottery and Government grants are also often advertised for sporting organisations to apply for. Local County Councils and Local Sports Partnerships are also a possible source of funding for Counties to investigate.

The Camogie Association produce a calendar of dates as supplied by Counties and Provinces at the beginning of each year.

No squad can be made up exclusively of Under 13-year olds. Exclusive means not more than 12 players. Under 13 development is for Club development only and is the responsibility of each County. There is no intercounty programme of games/blitzes for solely Under 13 players

Please see the Camogie Féile Rules in the Youth Development section.

Each county is allocated a number of places to represent the county at National Féile each year. It is up to each county to organise their own individual Féile competition to put forward representatives to National Féile.

The Camogie Association has a policy in relation to the organisation of Go Games. All units are required to adhere to the policy as provided.

The Coaching and Games Committee work on policy documents in the Autumn/Winter following their feedback document issued to counties. The policy for the coming year is issued to all counties in January/February of that year.

Yes. The Irish Anti-doping Rules are construed as Rules of the Association. Anti-Doping Compliance is covered under Rule 26 of the Official Rules of the Camogie Association, Official Guide Part 1.

Any queries regarding applications for the Intercounty Government Grant should be sent to intercountyfunding@gmail.com.

No. Only the highest-grade team in each county is eligible to apply for this funding.

Yes. The GAA County Healthy and Wellbeing Committee run Healthy Club Officer training sessions. Places are available to members of the GAA, Camogie Association and LGFA to attend GAA Healthy Club Officer Training.

What part of the year do Coach Education courses run from?

They must be over 16 years of age.

It is recommended that a person who has completed the Foundation Course would coach at that level for a minimum of 6 months or until such time as they would be ready to take on the next level of coach education as the Level 1 Course has an increased contact time and requires session planning etc.

The Coach Developer sends the course completion form to the national Coach Education and Development Co-ordinator and onto Coaching Ireland for certification. Foundation Courses are administered quickly. Level One certificates can take a little longer as the tutor can only send the completion forms when they receive ALL session plans and materials required by the participants. Any delay in these will delay the administration of certificates.

Yes, we will accept a Foundation Level qualification from the GAA. We now have a common (April 2020) introduction coaching course between Camogie/Hurling called the Introduction to Coaching Gaelic Games.

A half Foundation course costs €300 and consists of a maximum of 15 participants. A full Foundation course costs €480 and consists of a maximum of 24 participants. Our finance department will invoice the County Board who request the course and payment will be made directly from there.

After contacting and requesting the course via your Provincial Participation and Growth Co-ordinator, you should provide two potential dates that you wish to run the course. The venue should be suitable enough for the number of participants to actively take part in the practical elements. For theory, the venue should also have a classroom or room with access to electricity for the tutor’s projector. Essentially, this should be an indoor hall of suitable size. Weather permitting only, courses can be run on pitches too.

We will accept the Dual-Hurling/Gaelic Football coaching course from the GAA. We don't accept the Ladies Gaelic Football/GAA Football course as no Camogie/Hurling content is covered in the courses.

Should a person present themselves to a Club as a potential underage coach or be approached to take up such a role they will, in accordance with our procedures, have to be vetted, must complete a minimum coaching qualification and must also complete Gaelic Games Child Safeguarding Training. They must complete these requirements prior to commencing any role with children in our Associations. If a person attends their initial safeguarding training (Safeguarding 1) with another sports organisation or with a Local Sports Partnership, we continue to recognise this training and the individual will then complete their child safeguarding training requirements by undertaking the new Gaelic Games online refresher training programme (outlined below). The new online programme shall be completed by the individual within a timeframe agreed with their Club. This agreement only applies to safeguarding training, as promoted by Sport Ireland, and is delivered by other sports bodies or LSPs. It does not apply to non-sports child safeguarding training. Similar to all other underage coaches in any of the Gaelic Games Associations if a person attends their initial safeguarding training (Safeguarding 1) with another sports organisation or with a LSP and then completes the online programme they must still be vetted and must have a recognised coaching qualification.

All Camogie Clubs in Ireland are now required to carry out a Child Safeguarding Risk Assessment, following which they are obliged to then agree on the contents of a Child Safeguarding Statement. Clubs are then obliged to put that Statement on display in their Club premises or where Club teams meet or play. This is now a legal requirement in accordance with Children First legislation but has also been adopted by the Association to include all Clubs on the island of Ireland as part of our general good child safeguarding practices. The Code of Behaviour (Underage) contains much of what you require for your statement and we have also published a new and revised Child Safeguarding Statement template that you may find to be most useful in completing the new Statement https://camogie.ie/administration/child-welfare/children-first-2/

In accordance with vetting legislation, also referred to in the Children First Guidance, all persons who have a regulated role with children, (i.e. coaches, referees, Bord na nÓg members, parents who regularly assist in the Gaelic Games Associations) must be vetted by us before they take up their role. There are no exceptions to this directive.

No, a person must be in receipt of their vetting acceptance letter before they take up the coaching role.

The Camogie Association Vetting Policy states that once vetted an applicant shall be re-vetted within a three-year period.

No, there is an agreement between the Gaelic Games Associations (Handball, Rounders, Camogie, LGFA and the GAA) that we each recognise each other’s vetting. Therefore, if you were vetted through the LGFA/GAA etc. your vetting will suffice for the Camogie Association and vice versa.