Email: info@isrf.ie

IRISH SOUTH ROAD FEDERATION (Dublin) 

Pays out 35,000 euro in prize money and 33,000 euro in pools in  2016 and gets stronger and moves forward in 2017

 

President G Daly, Chairman T Henry Byrne,  Secretary  Michael Roche, Treasurer Willie Butler

The Irish South Road Federation (ISRF) was formed in 1968 and currently has approximately over 700 racing members/partnerships in 29 clubs. The federation covers an area from Wicklow to Monaghan, with the majority of the members located in the Dublin region

The weekly races have approx 6,000 to 11,000 birds competing in the inland races, and 2000 to 3000 approx birds competing in the 7 channel races. Depending on where the birds cross, they will fly between 60 and 100 miles approximately from England (the Irish Channel) and over 350 miles from France (St Malo) to Dublin.

The ISRF has three 40 foot transporters with a carrying capacity of nearly 15,000 birds at 20 birds per crate. Birds are also transported from other Irish clubs and federations that are outside the ISRF area and liberated by the ISRF at different race points (depending on the capacity of the transporters). They are charged a completive price, the Clubs and federations looking for this service must apply in writing to the ISRF committee for approval.

The ISRF committee do what they can to support the sport where possible. The Federation Members compete on a weekly basis from April to September from locations within Ireland, the United Kingdom, And France.

During the racing year there are 11 open races ,four from Barleycove (200 miles) , seven  channel races. 3 x Talbenny (130miles ) England, 3 x Penzance (240 miles) England and St Malo (370 miles) France, with a total prize money of €35,000 in 2016. There are six sections in the ISRF with weekly federation results.

The wind direction can vary for warm SW winds which generally give a winning velocity of 1400 to 1700 yards/min to cold  NE winds giving winning velocity’s 900 to 1300 yards/min.

 

The summary of minutes of the 2016 AGM are below

 

 

 

 

MINUTES OF THE IRISH SOUTH ROAD FEDERATION ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016.

was held on Sunday 8 th January 2017 at 10.30am in the Clann na Gael g.a.a club Sean Moore road Ringsend Dublin 4.

MEMBERS PRESENT   147

A minutes silence was called for the deceased members by the chairman.

1              A summary of the 2015 minutes was given out to all the members that were present and they were passed.

2.            PRESIDENT’S/CHAIRMANS  REPORT, Henry Byrne

Last year was a very good year for the federation in particular the channel racing the members had good returns.

There was a few difficult race but generally the racing was very good.

Finances of the federation are very good

The transporters are still costing money with up grades

Secretary and treasurer did a great job last year.

 

Apology from Jimmy Roberts  (transporter manager) due to a death of his father (J Roberts) also a member of the ISRF and raced the birds for year .  

Jimmy Roberts is still prepared to go forward as transporter managers in 2017.

 

3.            SECRETARY’S REPORT Michael Roche

I want to thank the ISRF committee, the treasurer the chairman and the club secretaries for all their help in 2016.

I want to thank the conveyors & in particular the liberator (Henry Byrne )of the pigeons for the excellent job they did for you and ISRF this year.

The system of recruiting the conveyors seems to be still working well so far.

This was my second year as secretary and as far as I know I did not make any major mistakes this year but if I did they were not intentional and I hope I can improve on that in the further.

As much information was given to the ISRF members as possible through the year.

The  I S R F official web site http://www.isrf.ie

Has the

ISRF race program and calendar,

 Up dated rules,

 Weekly federation results which are up dated  every week.

List of clubs in ISRF

Contacts

Weather

INFO about the ISRF

Minutes of the ISRF committee meeting during the year

IHU 2016 ring lists

Videos of the liberation sites were put on the web site when required

A contact e mail on the web info@isrf.ie

 And phone number of the committee

 

The ISRF weekly running averages and averages were displayed this year for the first time on the ISRF web site in 2016..

A system of texting the full members every week was continued this year 25000 approx texts were sent out in 2016 informing the members when the birds were out.   As far as i know most fanciers are still happy with the texts.

The top 6 of each club results in the ISRF competing in the ISRF open races was text to the fed sectary for the first time on the day of the open races and as a result a more accurate result of the top 50 was text to the club secretaries on the day of the each open ISRF race.

A hard copy of the weekly fed results was giver out at the transporters each week.

The  open races were completed with pools most weeks  and a  hard copy was also given out at the transporters.

The committee meetings were kept to minimum, this year 4 committee meetings this year concerning the general operations of the ISRF.

The Treasure has given a breakdown of the open races this year again.

As fare as i know everything that was needed to be done was done by me as secretary.

 

LOOKING FORWARD  TO 2017

RESULTS

All going well it is proposed in 2017 to publish on the ISRF web site with the aid of the pigeonlink.com

on a weekly bases

The ISRF

section results

Weekly running averages for each section

Running averages  for each club in the ISRF 

So each members will be able to check his running averages every week in the ISRF results , section, and his club races on the ISRF web site.

It is also proposed to update the section diplomas with the members and birds competing in each section on a weekly bases.

To achieve this it will be necessary to tell all clubs that any club that does not furnish the weekly members and birds competing in their club race will not be accepted for the fed result.

Finances of the ISRF.

The main income for the federation is through the members ISRF fees and the bird age.

Prize money is approx 35000 euro  a year.

The membership is falling  we lost 50 members last year so a other source of income may be an idea eg ( a  yearly ISRF auction )  to subsidise the open races.

I wish the members and the ISRF committee the best in the coming season 2017.

 

4.            TREASURER’S REPORT Willie Butler

Thank the secretaries and treasurers for their help over the years and had no real problem with any one and I like to thank the auditors for their assistance.

The loss of members every year means we have to be very careful in how we spend money in the ISRF.

Looking at what is happing in the sport regarding the membership of other federations we are doing reasonably well.

 

5.            TRANSPORT MANAGER’S REPORT

The year went well this year and he wanted to thank G Daley for all the work he do and helping him every week.

6.            LIBERATOR’S REPORT

We had a good season on the channel and up the land and with a bit of luck with the weather hopefully we have a good year in 2017.

7.            AUDITORS’ REPORT E Fitzgerald, P Fagan,

The federation is going well compared to last year.

The cost of the open races is spending most of the ISRF member’s fees this year.

We lost 50 members this year and our membership is worrying and we had a Extra Penzance race also.

The new fans cost 10,000 euro and was the best investment we ever did .  I was in Pilmore Beach race point and you could not smell the birds in the transporters due to the air being pushed through the transporters by the fans.

It is nice to have money to cover any big expenditure the fed might have to pay for.

The federation need 60,000 euro of a float in my opinion.

There is always a possibility of the federation needing a new trailer if something happened to any of the existing ones.

E Fitzgerald went through the one of expenditures foe 2016 which came to 20,000 approx.

E F  said the treasurer did a excellent job this year after having a difficult year last year with the loss of this wife.

E F wished the members well for the new year.

8              Pro 2016 J O Brien Clondalkin.

The chairman said John did a great job in 2016 and was on the radio also about the racing pigeons.

J O Brien

The more people that promote the sport the better.

He felt there is a lot of stuff going on in the pigeon sport that young members are not interested in.

He felt there was a biased with some people against pigeons

He felt if you don’t have anything good to say about pigeons then don’t say anything.

A new approach was needed he felt to encourage non fanciers to take up the sport of racing pigeons to prevent the sport dying out over the next few years.

 

9              BALANCE SHEET

 A discussion took place on drug testing

It was stated that the South African testers was the only one that got positive test

It was also said the South African testers was not prepared to stand over the case in the North Ireland ?

It was also pointed out that the members were paying 10 euro in their fees to pay for drug testing

A query regarding the doe expenditure was raised

No expenditure on drug testing in 2016 was raised.

 

10.          ELECTION OF OFFICERS FOR 2016

President  G Daly, Chairman. H Byrne, Senior Vice Chairman J Roberts, Junior Vice president S Read,  Secretary M Roche,  Treasurer Willie Butler, Assistant treasurer  L Darling , IHU Delegates S Read, A Meehan, Liberator  H Byrne, Transport managers S Read J Roberts, Auditors E Fitzgerald, P Fagan, P R O  J O Brian.

11           NEW MEMBERS OUT SIDE I.S.R.F RADIOUS

Trim club

David Moore

Jonathon Greaves

Fergal Healy

Newman and Thorpe

12.          NEW CLUB  NAVAN R.P.C.

Members  existing members of ISRF.

7 members

12a W BUTLER life member of ISRF        

RACE PROGRAMME 2017
OLD BIRDS		YOUNG BIRDS
15TH APRIL	THURLES	15TH JULY	THURLES
22TH APRIL	TRAMORE	22TH JULY	THURLES
29ND APRI	MALLOW	29ST JULY	PILMORE BEACH
6TH MAY	CASTLETOWN	5TH  AUG	MALLOW
13TH MAY	DUNMANWAY	12TH AUG	CASTLETOWN
20RD MAY	BARLEYCOVE  OPEN	19ND AUG	BARLEYCOVE OPEN
27TH MAY	PILMORE BEACH	26TH AUGS	THURLES
27TH MAY	TALBENNY  OPEN	26TH AUG	TALBENNY OPEN
3TH JUNE	CASTLETOWN	2TH SEPT	PILMORE BEACH
3TH JUNE	TALBENNY  OPEN	9TH SEP	MALLOW
10TH JUNE	PILMORE BEACH	16TH SEP	CASTLETOWN
10TH JUNE	PENZANCE OPEN	23TH SEP	DUNMANWAY OPEN
17TH JUNE	DUNMANWAY
17TH JUNE	PENZANCE  OPEN
23TH JUNE	ST. MALO  OPEN
24TH JUNE	DUNMANWAY
1TH JULY	BARLEYCOVE  OPEN
8TH JULY	PENZANCE  OPEN