End the stigma with Green Ribbon

KERRY GAA is encouraging club members to ‘Wear the Green Ribbon this May to end Mental Health Stigma in Kerry’.

Green Ribbons were given to club delegates at the County Committee meeting last Monday night and additional Green Ribbons will be distributed to clubs over the coming week. The Green Ribbon campaign aims to get people talking openly about common mental health problems.

To support the Green Ribbon campaign this May in your club, encourage all club members, team Mentors, coaches, club officers etc. to wear the Green Ribbon and to use social media accounts and photographs to spread the word.

Distributing a green ribbon to people attending games would have a huge impact in getting the conversation going as would including information on the Green Ribbon campaign in match programmes.

Data Protection

THE laws relating to data protection come into effect on May 25. Considering that the sanctions are quite substantial fines, it’s extremely important to comply and have measures in place for the new data protection regulations.

Like other organisations the GAA club will be required to implement the appropriate organisational measures in relation to how we handle, store and process personal data for our members.

These laws relate to any Personally Identifiable Information (PII)-that’s any information that can be used to identify any individual e.g. name, email address, phone number.

For clubs some examples of this type of data can be member registration details, lotto ticket sales, photographs, facility bookings etc. Kerry County Board will be holding a special meeting to help the Kerry clubs get started in the area of data protection.

In the meantime, we would advise clubs to appoint a Data Protection Officer, think about how you store your data and try to identify risks of data breach.

Lotto

THE numbers drawn on Monday night were 1,4,5,32. The winners of the 2 €50 lucky dips were Séamus Coffey, Fossa and Breandán Fitzgerald. The draw for the 2 tickets to see the Rolling Stones was made live at the County Committee meeting and the winner was Declan O’Sullivan. We hope Declan enjoys the concert!