All Ulster County Strategies in Place

Ulster has become the first Province in the GAA to have all of its Counties complete a five year Strategic Plan. The Ulster Council’s second strategic plan “Beir Bua Nua” launched in 2006 set a strategic target to have all nine counties complete and implement a five year strategic plan. The process took four years to complete and has been such a success that County Strategic planning has become a National policy for the entire GAA as part of the roll out of the National GAA Strategic Action Plan and vision which was launched in 2008.

Ulster GAA is now in the second year of its third strategy “Family and Community the Fabric of the GAA” and will shortly start the process of developing a second series of strategies with Derry, Cavan and Antrim which will be complete in 2011.

Danny Murphy Provincial Secretary highlighted the success of the process “Strategic Planning is a vitally important part of the GAA and in Ulster it’s not new, we have had over 12 years of successful planning that has resulted in strong and cooperative model of development with our County Committees and Clubs, there is clear and measurable success in all of this work.  I am grateful to Ryan Feeney (Ulster GAA Provincial Strategic Coordinator) and Mark Conway, the Council Honorary Strategic Advisor who continue to implement this process at both Provincial and County level on behalf of the Developments Committee of Ulster GAA”.

There will be further information on the launch of the Monaghan GAA plan in the August edition of the UIster GAA Newsletter.