Sport Ireland Coaching Resources

Sport Ireland Coaching presented the webinar ‘Learning from Covid-19 – Where do we go from here?’ 

Sheelagh Quinn of Sport Ireland Coaching facilitated presentations and a panel discussion with guest speakers from:

Karen Coventry, Director of Sport, Special Olympics Ireland: Learnings as an NGB in keeping relationships and navigating coaching, learning supports and athletes through Covid-19.

Maggie Farrelly, Donegal Sports Partnership: Engaging programmes during the pandemic and applying the learnings from it to future courses

Phelim Macken, Sports Co-ordinator, Limerick Sports Partnership: How Local Sports Partnerships changed their approach to support their local community during Covid-19.

Questions and topics discussed and answered on the day were:

• How did you manage to keep your athletes/coaches/organisations engaged during Covid?
• What supports do you have in place to help you all stay in contact?
• Learnings from it all: What would you change or do again?
• Roadmap out of Covid, what does the future hold?