Following on from the Office 365 Training in March of this year. It has been decided to organise a further 3 dates of training on module 1 due to interest and also the positive feedback from the training courses earlier in the year.

Date and venues as follows:

Monday – 9th October

Cork City – St Patricks College, Gardiner’s Hill, Cork (7.30pm – 9.30pm)

Wednesday 11th October

Mallow –The Q-Centre, IDA Business and Technology Park, Lower Quartertown, Mallow,(7.30pm-9.30pm)

Monday 16th October

Dunmanway – West Cork Education Centre, The Square, Dunmanway (7.30pm – 9.30pm)

Registration on each night @ 7,15pm

The training module is opening to all officers who have office 365 – GAA email account.The aims of the module will be to improve the ability of GAA Club Officers to use the basic functionality that the Microsoft Office 365 package offers.

Programme Content

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• E-mail andcalendar
• One drive
• Office 365 Web Apps
• Phone and tablet usage
• Resources and supports

Each course is limited to 20 places due to the number of computers available in each venue, so ‘places are available on a first come, first served basis’.

To book a place on any of the courses register online click on the link below

https://goo.gl/forms/N8ZGi7cJ0vXNdjXd2

In the event of a course(s) being oversubscribed and there is sufficient numbers, another course will be organised.

You will be required to have your email account username and password in order to access your email account on the night.

This weekend saw a special congress take place in Croke Park, over the day some big decisions took place with major changes to the Senior Inter-County Hurling Championships. More on this can be seen on www.gaacork.ie .

The changes that will see impact on underage is the change in the Inter-County Minor Hurling Championship, motion 12.

ALL IRELAND MINOR HURLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Motion 12 CCCC/Ard Chomhairle (Passed with 90 per cent of delegates in favour of it)

Deals with the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Championship. It proposes that any suitable Ulster teams participate in Leinster. The winners of Leinster and Munster qualify for the All-Ireland semi-finals, while the runners-up in both provinces and Galway compete in a round-robin All-Ireland series. The top two teams advance to the All-Ireland semi-finals.

CENTRAL COUNCIL MOTIONS TO FACILITATE THE PLAYING OF CLUB GAMES

Motion 13 CCCC/Ard Chomhairle (Passed after receiving the backing of 64% of delegates)
Proposes that Rule 6.40 (a) Tournament Games be amended to permit inter-county tournament games to be organised up to the U-16 grade only.
Motion 13A Cork – amendment to Central Council motion  (Passed with the support of 77 per cent of delegates)
To allow counties to facilitate tournaments games at U-19 hurling level.

AGE GRADES

Motion 20 Minor Review Workgroup/Ard Chomhairle (Deferred until next year’s Congress)

It proposes that underage Age Grades at Club Level be altered from Under 12, 14, 16  and 18 to Under 11, 13, 15 and 17.It further proposes that the lower age level eligibility at different levels not be altered.Example: In the case of Under 18 – a player shall have celebrated his 14^th birthday prior to January 1^st of the Championship year. Effectively the eligibility age span in each case is reduced by one year.

PLAYING RULES

Motion 21 Standing Committee on Playing Rules/Ard Chomhairle.

(Passed with support from 82 per cent of the delegates)

This relates to the kick-out in Football.The proposal is that the ball must travel “at least 13m” and additionally travel “outside the 20 metre line” before being played by another player of the defending team.An amendment of Technical Foul/Penalty in Rule 4.29 is consequently proposed.