gaa membership

Offer to step down from the coaching and see if their tune changes

If all parents decided to do that there would be no football for kids.

What sort of reward would you like for been a coach anyway?

What does the 1 x Parent/guardian cost? I wouldn't pay this fee as well as the coaches fee. It'd be either/or. My club doesn't charge coaches if it did I certainly wouldn't pay! Its a very underappreciated role your in, but I guess your doing it for your own kid too so no point complaining. I can see why it gets on your nerves thou!

Coaches should be given "free" membership as a token of appreciation for giving their time imo.

It's only a small fraction of total membership fees but I think it would be a great gesture. A simple thank you for your time.

Quite frustrating when you see constant fundraising in clubs and money being thrown at expenses for the senior team setups etc...

Ya - similar to an above comment; I'd be involved with multiple clubs/counties simultaneously, and all of them 'cover' my annual fee for the Team

For the above comment - you stop at the Primary management team (for each team within the club):

Manager, Selectors, Coach, S&C Coach, Analyst (FLO if a female club)

Weird for them to not mention that to you OP

If they are part of the coaching/mentor team, the answer is yes

Like you I am also an underage coach courtesy of my Daughter, I wouldn't expect to be rewarded but I certainly wouldn't expect to pay for something that a non-coaching parent doesn't have to pay for

If I were in your shoes I'd be stepping down

They need to be members to apply for vetting ?

What insurance are you talking about here?

It's up to the club what level of membership a parent/guardian is assigned within Foireann. By default they are assigned a social member. But there's a number of variables at play. As I said some clubs have no issues with parents and guardians being assigned social members and as such having access to Foireann. There's no parent or guardian membership on Foireann.

Two things strike me there!

A club with 200 coaches must have a helluva lot of playing members and a good sized income from various sources?

You say "There's very little funding coming from the top (GAA) down". What? But this is not what we are constantly being told - the GAA get very generous support from the state and it's been recognised that the club is at the heart of the GAA. So what do you mean?

Close to 2k members. And significant expenses.

What other funds can clubs rely on.

I mean the club's get very little direct financial support from the GAA.

Indeed. Which was the category the OP found themselves in.

The club can register that person as a social member of a full member with the GAA on Foireann. Social or Full members can be Garda vetted on Foireann.

Club seems to be suggesting to the OP that they don't register Parents or Guardians on Foireann and that the OP needs to become a social member which will incur another charge.

The fact that the OP is a coach changes nothing really from a membership perspective. All down to how the club deals with memberships.

If the OP has issues it's possible to bring a motion to the AGM to review the club's policies around these things.