New Mayo LGFA executive set to be formed after ‘brilliant response’ to calls for volunteers

THE threat of ladies Gaelic football being put on hold in Mayo has been averted as a full Mayo LGFA executive is set to be ratified.

Speaking to The Mayo News ahead of an EGM of Mayo LGFA in the Traveller’s Friend Hotel in Castlebar this evening (Tuesday), Mayo LGFA Chairman Des Phillips said he confident that each position will be filled.

Mayo LGFA had warned that failures to fill the roles of Secretary, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary, Assistant Treasurer and PRO would ‘force a halt to all LGFA activities, including training and inter-county trials’.

A public appeal for people to volunteer for various roles last week received a ‘brilliant response’, according to Phillips.

“After tomorrow night’s meeting I am confident that after tomorrow night’s meeting we will have a full executive. There has been a brilliant response,” Phillips told The Mayo News yesterday evening (Monday).

The Kilmovee man said that some ‘very capable people’ had volunteered to take on the various positions on the Mayo LGFA executive.

The former Mayo Minor ladies manager said he would stay on as the executive Chairman while Vice-Chairman Michael McHale, Ita Brennan (Children’s Officer) and Debbie Lavelle Doyle (Language and Cultural Officer) will also remain.

Mayo LGFA previously had all its activities ran by the Connacht Council from July 2020 to January 2021 following the resignation of ten members of the executive committee in March.

A total of seven positions were left unfilled following Mayo LGFA’s 2022 AGM.