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It is good to see that some people are willing to develop clubs and games in Europe.

As Secretary of European County, I would like to underline that we are more than open to see the development of regional games and that it is more the responsability of the local clubs to organise them.

Regarding the EUroleague ROunds, we are also open to investigate new places each year, but it is clear that there is not so much candidates to organize a round, certainly due to the amount of work needed.

We tried to develop actions and projects with the ressources we have (free time, money, partners...) and try to share experience of existing clubs with new ones.

It is sure that we should improve in a short and medium term the communication with the clubs and members, the level of information on the website: who knows that we have launched this year a "Start a club " document which explains the important points to think about if you want to create a club in Europe, and also a "Tournament organization " document?

To achieve this goal we would need human ressources (good willing are welcome!), revenues (any idea?) and we can think to do just like the Australian recently with permanent staff paid by the organisation.
First question: funds? where can we find the budget?
2nd question: location? where shall we start an EUropean COunty Office?

- look at a map of Europe : Lahti in Finland is the more in North club of our County, Malaga in Spain the Southest one. 4200 km between those 2 clubs
- nearest club for Malaga is Barcelona at 960 km (we expect soon a club in Madrid). Nearer other Club for Barcelona is Rennes, 1000 km
- the distance between Londonderry (Ulster) and Dingle (Kerry) is 480 km


Regarding our day to day administration:
- Chairman is in Guernsey, Treasurer in Paris, Youth Officer in Barcelona (Spain), Huriling officer in Switzerland, Developement Officer in Germany, Ladies officed in Luxemburg, Sponsor officer in Netherlands and Secretary in Rennes, France... It is not possible to take a car and meet in any place in Europe (just like it is in Scotland, Britain, even USA), even if we think we should meet al least once between 2 AG.
- we have no official office and no secretary assistance: everything is done on private (... or professional) time and cost: thanks to willingness and passion.
- we are using our professional confcall possibilities (carefully), but some people have to use their own phone (at their own cost) to attend to one hour call. Some others can not join as they do not have the chance to have an individual office.
- we are using for sure emails and are promoting some forum website to discuss and communicate but it needs to follow a professional way (and so we need to develop relatively low cost tools with the website)
- have in mind that we have also a family life (3 kids at home on my side)


I know that our situation is quite unique but we need to help all the motivated person that try to work on a professional way for GAA development in Europe.

The excting part is that we are building together a new adventure for an amateur sport which can have a real futur in Europe and not only for Irishs expats.


Thank you for all your support and all the time you allocate to Europe GAA development on a local or european issue.

Warm regards,


Hervé
EuroGAA Secretary