AGM 2018
New Committee elected at AGM to run Club affairs in 2018
The Club’s Annual General Meeting held on Friday evening 19th January in the Annebrook House Hotel was well attended and it gave everyone present an opportunity to be reminded of the many successes enjoyed by the Club over the last year on the road, at indoor and outdoor track and field and in cross country thanks to the performances of members from the very youngest juveniles up to our most senior master athletes.
Mark Christie continues to be standard bearer for the Club and the one that everyone looks up to and wishes to emulate and Mark’s participation at the European Athletics Team Championships in June was one of the fourteen times that Club members competed for Ireland in 2017, with International debuts by Bea Drummond in the Schools International Cross Country and Eileen Kenny at the British and Irish Masters International Cross Country. Among the many highlights was Sean McMullin wining multiple medals at World Master Indoors, World Masters Games and European Masters T&F in an extremely memorable year for him. Jamie Battle’s win in the junior men race at the recent Antrim International Cross Country was his first victory at International level and a testament to the great emerging talent that he is.
Chairperson, Joe Ryan, in his final AGM as Chair as he has served the maximum term of seven years allowed, opened the meeting by welcoming everyone and introduced the Secretary’s report by Margaret Daly and the Treasurer’s report by Tom McGrath. These were followed by the Chairperson’s Address by Joe Ryan and the President’s Address by Sean McMullin, which was read by Joe Ryan as Sean was unable to attend the meeting in person. Club membership continues to grow and is currently at an all time high and the Club’s finances are in a healthy state. Some important issues and motions were discussed and debated, including the increasing pressure on the coaches due to increased membership and an appeal was made for more parents to step forward and assist the existing coaches, even if only occasionally. An extra pair of hands and eyes is really all that is asked for and no coaching experience is required though any that wish to gain a coaching qualification will be gladly assisted. The subscriptions rates for 2019 were also agreed and they will increase a little due to the increased cost of entries met by the Club in Leinster and National competitions, especially for our underage members. The new membership rates will not apply until 2019.
The following were elected as officers and committee members for the coming year:
Sean McMullin (President), Breda McDonnell (Vice-President), Margaret Daly (Chairperson), Caitríona Duffy (Vice-Chairperson), Tom McGrath (Treasurer), Colm Walsh (Secretary), Greg Duggan (Assistant Secretary – PRO, Registrar and Competition entries), Joanna Tyrrell (Minutes Secretary), Pauline Quinn, Margaret Daly and Greg Duggan (Child Officers), Cormac Finnerty, Pat Muldoon Senior, Vera McCool and John Shaw (Trustees). The officers and trustees are automatically on the new committee, as are Life Vice-presidents Seamus Gibney, Cormac Finnerty, Martin Fagan, Bobbie Begley, John Mulvihill, George Bell and Christy Creagh, and will be joined by Mark Bate, Declan Costello, Amanda Dalton, Joan Flynn, Nuala Moran, Karen McGouran, Clare O’Donnell, Aine O’Reilly, Joe Ryan and Tom Wallace who were elected to the committee. Excluding trustees and Life-Vice presidents who are automatically on the Committee, the more or less fifty-fifty gender balance in the Club membership in general is very well reflected in the elected Committee and Officers.
Concluding the meeting, Joe Ryan thanked all present for their attendance and input and closed a successful AGM.
