Bob Seward MSc. Occ Health ACI Anti-doping Officer
World Anti-doping Agency
Coolmine South Drug & Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centre, were winners of a Pride of Cork Award on Sunday last.
ACI and SSTRAI were delighted to hear Coolmine South, Drug & Alcohol Addiction Treatment Centre were awarded the Pride of Cork Award for all the great work they are doing. ACI & SSTRAI have worked with Coolmine over past 2 years and have brought clients and carers through our ACI CAST Skills Programme. This was mentioned during the awards, this programme is great to give people an opportunity to engage positively in community based activities and outdoor adventure angling sport. Since Coolmine have started with ACI & SSTRAI they have formed their own angling club and now have 6 introductory angling coaches. ACI has worked with Cork and Kerry groups and have plans for a new Coolmine group in Blanchardstown. Well done to Coolmine South.
ACI & SSTRAI at Cloghan Lake yesterday with Westmeath Sports Partnership
We had a great day yesterday and big thanks to James and staff at this wonderful angling venue. We had 2 groups who enjoyed the day. Well done to all the anglers and care staff who took part in the ACI Angling Cast Skills Programme over the past 5 weeks.
SSTRAI Pike fishing for women in angling sport
Working with Irish Federation of Pike Angling Clubs we had some great fishing on the the river Shannon
Sport Ireland Sport Development Conference 2025
The Angling Council of Ireland were selected to present our angling programmes during the recent conference at Sports HQ. In addition to presenting, we also had a stand where we provided all the Sport Ireland Development Officers with examples of angling adaptive equipment.
This was very well received by all. We brought along the wheelchair accessible boat, some kayaks which are adapted for hand and foot steering, left or right side, and had electric motors fitted. We displayed some adapted fly fishing rods and reels for one hand users and similarly for spinning or casting rods and reels, we also showcased some semi automatic reels and electric deep sea equipment. Great interactions over the 2 day event at the Sports Arena. The feedback we received was great.
Irish Sailing Medal Race Invitational, Irish Sailing Performance HQ, Dublin 26/5/2025
Mandatory Credit ©INPHO/Andrew Conan
