Strategic plan will keep Kingdom on top

KERRY County Board’s Strategic Vision and Action Plan will enable the county to maintain its preeminent position through clubs and personnel being more proactive in meeting new challenges and changing them into new opportunities.

That’s the message board chairman Jerome Conway had for units at its formal launch in Tralee last night, emphasising that it was “a living document” which will need to be monitored, reviewed and altered according as the need arises.

Pointing out that their success in promoting and developing Gaelic games in the past had been achieved through good planning, leadership and delegation, he stated that the association was now confronted by problems created by the recession in terms of loss of employment and emigration, as well as rural depopulation. Other factors were the numbers of young people who play no games and competition from other sports.