In April 2007 South Dublin County Council was awarded a Local Sports Partnership. The Irish sports council has recognised that the partnerships are an excellent mechanism for delivering recreational sport to local people. Key tasks that the partnerships are involved in include:

• Increased facility usage
• The consolidation of work carried out to date
• The creation & implementation of plans for long term local sports development
• The establishment of sustainable structure to assist all those involved in local sports development to face the associated challenges e.g. recruiting and managing volunteers, quality training etc.

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Membership of the Local Sport Partnerships

All those statutory bodies, organisations and groups operating in local areas with a responsibility for or interest in sports development should be invited to participate in the LSP. The involvement of the Vocational Education Committees (VEC), city and county councils, Health Service Executive (HSE), FÁS, universities, colleges, Institutes of Technology, commercial companies, sports' clubs, national governing bodies (NGBs) and community groups in the partnership will be important.

Members of South Dublin County Sports Partnership

Front Row – From left to right Billy Coman (SDCC), Alison Casserly (SDCC), Lizzy Lynch (Special Olympics Ireland), Caroline Peppard (HSE), Martin O’Hanlon (FAI & Chair of the LSP), Pat Ryan (AAI), John Doyle (Tallaght Partnership), Cllr Eamonn Tuffy (SDCC), Back Row from left to right Stephen Bates (CODUBVEC), Michael Hannon (SDCC) Gerry Anderson (ITTallaght), Jack O’Farrell (Community Forum), Cecil Johnston (Clondalkin Partnership) David Ross (IRFU), Gerry Fitzgibbon (SDCC) Absent: Cllr Mark Daly (SDCC), Maria Masterson (Tallaght GARDA)