Laura Heffernan Leads Super Session
Last Monday night saw the Under 12s and 14 girls coached under the guidance of Laura Heffernan. Laura has a vast amount of playing and coaching experience winning titles with Wexford Celtic, Enniscorthy and...
Category: Coaching
Player/Coach Development Team Introduction
Following on from our recent AGM it was decided that we should aim to structure our club in such a way that we would have small groups of people looking after specific areas. One...
PAFC Trials and Street Leagues 2016
Portlaoise AFC Schoolboy/Schoolgirl trials and street leagues for 2016 listed below! Age Date Time U10 Thursday 21st July 6.15-7.30pm Saturday 23rd July 10.30-12noon Monday 25th July 5-6.15pm Wednesday 27th July 6.15-7.30pm U11 Thursday 21st...
Coach Education – Portlaoise AFC 2015/16
We had another coaching workshop in Rossleighan recently with 20 of our club coaches attending. It got me thinking about the effort our coaches are putting in, in order to be better coaches for...
Second Niall Harrsion Coaching Workshop
Any of you that attended the Niall Harrison workshop on 24th October last, know the quality of his coaching. Niall is the former FAI U15 international coach and is currently FAI Boys Emerging Talent...
Oisin Jordan Workshop
Portlaoise AFC were delighted to welcome Oisin Jordan FAI Football for All National Co-ordinator to Rossleighan Park the last two Thursday evenings from 7-10pm. It was a very informative, practical introduction to all coaches...
Mental Health Workshops
The club with the help of Joe Thompson from the Youth Cafe and Anthony O’ Prey from the HSE have organised two workshops on Mental Health. The first one is called “Looking After Our...
Harrison Workshop Success
Two information packed workshops took place with well over 30 club coaches and a few welcome visitors, attending in total. It was great to see our young players enjoying the sessions and the coaches...
Ireland International Coach – Workshop in Rossleighan
Niall Harrison former U15 international coach and current Head of FAI Emerging Talent programme is coming to Portlaoise to do two workshops for our coaches this Saturday 24th October! The MSL have kindly organised...
First Aid Course
Well done to all who attended the Defibrillator Training Course last week in Rossleighan. 13 coaches/staff members attended and it is super to have so many with such important skills. A Basic First Aid...
