Following today’s count Mr John Egan, Templetuohy CC is elected President and Mr Damian Matthews, Ballymena CC is elected Honorary Treasurer of the Irish Coursing Club. John becomes the 26th person to hold the office of ICC President and makes history as the first to have held both President and Treasurer positions. Damian becomes only the 11th Hon Treasurer of the ICC since it’s foundation in 1916.

Election of President

Mr Brian Divilly: 58 votes

Mr John Egan: 64 votes

Election of Honorary Treasurer

Mr Tom Beckett:   42 votes

Mr Damian Matthews:   80 votes

NOTICE TO VOTING MEMBERS IN ELECTION FOR PRESIDENT AND HONORARY TREASURER.

Please note the following clarification and update:

1. The return envelope is not pre-stamped as a voting member has four options to submit their vote:

(i) Via An Post Ordinary Post (ii) An Post Express Delivery (iii) An Post Registered Post (iv) Hand delivery option to Mr Patrick Higgins of Keanes Solicitors on August 26 between 2pm and 4pm.

2. All votes were issued via An Post Express Delivery service (one day delivery) on Monday August 16 and this is a traceable system. It transpires that a number of votes were not delivered in this timeframe and An Post is following up on the undelivered votes as per the terms of the Express Delivery service. In the event of a vote not being delivered in time, the ICC will make contact with voters and make alternative arrangements to ensure each vote is exercised prior to the counting of the votes.

There is no requirement to contact the ICC at this point as we will be checking outstanding delivery of votes over the coming days.

Thank you for your attention.

The Information Portal on the ICC website to facilitate the sharing of news items is now launched. This is a ‘members only’ service and is intended to impart information in a timely manner and also to assist in engaging with members efficiently when time sensitive information needs to be shared.

Membership of the Information Portal will be free but members must be verified/approved by their local club. To this end we recently contacted the Media Officers appointed by each club, asking them to collate the necessary details for each member of their club wishing to access the Information Portal and to return this data to us. This information will not be shared with third parties and member details will only be used to impart information from the ICC.

[Please note this is totally separate from the ordinary membership of the ICC website whereby individuals pay €50 annually to access draws etc. Existing members of the ICC website will have to register for the Information Portal and be verified by their Club Media Officer the same as everyone else.]   

You can now register to become a member of the ICC Information Portal. See box on right hand side of home page. You will be asked to select the name of your Club from a drop-down list. However, membership will not be activated until such time as your name is cross-checked with the verification list submitted by your Club Media Officer.

Step 1: Inform the Media Officer at your local club that you wish to register as a member of the ICC Information Portal if you have not already done so.

Step 2: The Club Media Officer sends the list of verified Club Members to the ICC.   

Step 3: You go to www.irishcoursingclub.ie and register online to become a member of the ICC Information Portal. See dark green box on right hand side of home page.

Step 4: Within 72 hours or as soon as possible thereafter, the ICC will cross-check your name against the verification list submitted by your Club Media Officer. If your name appears on this list your membership of the Information Portal will be activated and you will be able to log-in. Should your name not appear on the list submitted by the Club Media Officer or if no list has been submitted, the ICC will undertake to contact the Club Media Officer to resolve the situation. If there continues to be a problem with verification the ICC will contact you directly by e-mail.