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Summery of ISEF committee meeting on  11-2-16.

Members G Daly, H Byrne ,W Butler ,M Roche ,L Darling ,V Flood ,J Roberts ,S Reid ,

Agenda

1) Transporters’

Crates on transporters, Cabra crates, East wall crates ?

Cabra club to get crates in N Side club if they want them.

N.S.  to get corrugate paper and sawdust.

2)Hauler, Fans in trucks,

Fenton Tailors cork.

New wiring, new batteries, new fans, rechargeable system for the batteries, Doe,

Heaters in living quarters, maybe tubbier heaters,

One truck will be done first and inspected in Dublin by the ISRF committee.

The platforms and the wire door was discussed and it was agreed that light weight hops a new steel wire door needs to be made.

3)Interviews For Conveyers.

Conveyers. It was agreed that the existing conveyers do not need to be interviewed again for 2016 but they will also be asked if they are interested in going forward for the coming year. New applicants will be interviewed last date for applications 28/2/16.

It was agreed that the conveyors should clean the trucks before each race each week.

 4) 250 points.

A discussion took place regarding the 250 points.

It was agreed that all first fed positions will have 250 points but if there is over 2000 birds in any fed race there will be points given to the first 250 positions.

5) Barleycove

A discussion took place regarding Barleycove.  Skull was mentioned as a alternative

It was agreed that a chief conveyer and a few committee visit the lib site to check it out .

6) Birds in Crates

RPRA max area per bird in crates was discussed.

The calculation was worked out based on the size of the isrf crates as follows  it was suggested to drop the birds in the crates to 10 or 12 for France.

RPRA rule, One night 22,  two night 18,  three nights 16 birds in a crate.

 Fed rule complies with the RPRA rule fed rule 16 birds on channel races and 14 birds to  France. It was agreed to reduce the number of birds in the crates on the channel if possible.

7) Open races

The cost of running the open races was discussed.

Any organisation coming with the ISRF to the channel races will be charged the same as the members of the ISRF.

The cost per bird channel races 2-50 per bird, France 8 euro.

8) D Iveagh.

Darren concerns was discussed by the ISRF committee and it was agreed to send a letter to Darren outlining the ISRF committee position.

The committee agreed the following.

1)      The ISRF is a federation of clubs.

2)      All communication from any individual should come through their club secretary in writing.

9) Trophies

The cost of 4000 Euro approx for trophies for the races was discussed.

10) Clubs with small memberships

The clubs with less than 16 members was discussed.

It was suggested that the small clubs should go together for the open races.

It was agreed to wait till the membership forms come in.

11) Transports Tenders

It was agreed for this year 2016 to stay with the existing haulier.

 Meeting closed 

Summary of ISRF AGM 2015

1) Minutes of the previous 2014 AGM meeting were read and passed

A copy of the rules passed in 2014 AGM were given to the members present and passed.

The ISRF gave out over 30,000 euro in prize money this in the 10 open races .

The chairman

O B racing last year 2015  was a good year  but Y B session had heavy losses?

There is a Detailed balance sheet account and a Breakdown of open races.

The chairman thanked the treasures for all his efforts in getting the balance sheet completed for the AGM.

He also thanked the transporter managers

The chairman made comments regarding the results and in his option there was room for improvement. He also felt that there should be no problem in the further.

Secretary’s report

 The Secretary thank the ISRF committee, the treasurer the chairman and the club secretaries for their help, over the year. He also thank the conveyors & liberator of the pigeons for the excellent job they did for you and ISRF this year. The new system of recruiting the conveyors seemed to be working well so far.

For those who were not at the last AGM  there was some disagreement and unrest  among the members at last year’s AGM  so my first priority and objective of the  ISRF committees also this year  was to not to give rise to any unnecessary disagreements between the clubs and the federation. I hope we have gone some way on in achieving that this year.

It was agreed by the ISRF committee at the start of the year  that as much information should be given to the ISRF members as possible through the year.                                                       The existing ISRF web site was taken down off the web at the start of the year so a new official ISRF web site was set up on the web.

The new web site has the race program and calendar, rules, weekly federation results, up dated every week, membership, contacts, weather , about the ISRF.  Also for the first time the minutes of the last ISRF committee meeting was but on the web site. Info on the ISRF web site is on IHU and ring lists. Videos of the liberation sites were put on the web site also.   A contact e mail is on the web info@isrf.ie and phone number of the committee is on the web site also.                                                                                                                                       A system of texting the full members every week was introduce for the first time this years on a trial bases.  As far as I know most fanciers were happy with the texts.                           The top 3 birds in the fed opens was text on the day and a provisional result of the open races was compiled.                                                                                                                              A hard copy of the weekly fed results was giver out at the transporters each week.

A new system of dealing with the open races was agreed with the committee and as a result the open races were completed with pools at the end of each week for the first time and a  hard copy was also given out at the transporters.

The federation committee introduced a new race point castle town with in a distance of approx 150 miles with good reports so fare.                                                                               I also did the measurements with the aid of the Pigeonlink program for Tramore and the new race point Castletown for all the fed members and also for the other race points for the  new members in the fed this year.   The committee meetings were kept to minimum 6 committee meetings this year concerning the general operations of the fed.

The Treasure has given a breakdown of the open races this year.  As fare as i know everything that was needed to be done was done by me as secretary.

It is hard to believe that the year is over and I wish to the ISRF and its members the best in the coming year.

Sec  2105 M Roche

Treasurer  report

He Thanked the auditors and the club secretary.

I S Federation held its own this year but we dropped 25 members. The drug testing was our biggest expense. He thanked the ISRF committee and clubs for the year.

Transport managers , S Reid .  Report.

Lack of communication from the committee regarding the transporter times needed improvement. He found it hard to recall how many crate each club got .

Jimmy Roberts  Report.

He felt there was no problems generally . There was disagreements regarding water the birds for the short races.

Liberators report.

O B season very good he felt.

Y B was a pit hairy at the start of the season but was a good season for racing over all. 

For him to continue as Liberator a change on rule 73 need to be changed if the members want him to continue as liberator. The liberator made it clear the behaviour of some members last year 2014 AGM was a disgraceful he felt

The committee and liberator needs the support of the members after been elected at the AGM.  The chairman said he will never put up with abuse ever again. He does not mind constructive criticism if he did something wrong.

AUDITORS

One of the auditors Paul Fagan left his apologies as he could not attend the AGM.

E Fitzgerald the second Auditor was asked to speak on the balance sheet.

EF  said the ISRF has over 50,000 in the bank it was down on last year due to 2 main things on the balance sheet drug testing over 8000.  There was 37 drug test on behalf of the ISRF this year 10 from the north may be 1000 euro.

We have a enough drug testing kits for 2016  but we may need to change the system of testing the birds each week to make it more economical. Up north there is a positive test again he said. People are being caught but there might be a cheaper way of doing the testing. Up the north they check the one bird from the top 10 in the federation. Between the drug test and crates made and kits it came to 10,000 approx. Catching one person sends a message to everyone else that is in the ISRF to take drug testing serious. The other expenditure was repairing the steel crates over 7000. Timber crates were a better option as they are easily repaired. Crate are being damaged by the transporter hen it is travelling and fanciers standing on them.                                                                                                       Air condition is used in other transporters in the north and steel crates. Our transporters have no air condition so we should go for wood he felt. Feeding was taken off the balance sheet as it was given to different fanciers for letting the transporters into the different sites

 Few things went up insurance , reparse on trucks was done in 2014 and big job on the roof of the trucks.  We made over 6000 profit for the  open races. 3900 profit on the weekly races transporter costs went up a bit. No problems there with the income from the open race and the weekly races. Membership down by 28. E F felt if the expenditure is kept low in 2016 the balance in the bank should be back to 60,000 euro. He also thanked Willie the treasurer for having everything done to perfection and agreed with the secretary M Roche that the treasurer is one of the most important positions in the ISRF. The chairman pointed out there was some losses and gains on the open races and the committee will have to look at that as the federation can’t lose money.

The chairman asked if there was any questions on the balance sheet.

Proposed  S Reid

Second  J Clearly East Wall

Toney east wall asked why the fed results were not given out for the first 5 week?

The secretary explained that as far as he was concerned the fed results was given out from week one and the treasured confirmed that he gave out the fed results each week on the south side ?

Election of officers

Temp chairman E Fitzgerald

Proposed  G Daly ,second K Beanery

President  G Daly  Proposed Willie mc Carty, Second j mc Laughlin.

Chairman. H Byrne ,Proposed G Daly ,Second J mc Laughlin.

Senior Vice Chairman  J Roberts  Proposed M Roche second  W Butler.

Junior Vice president S Reed  M Roche Proposed,  Second  Willie Butler 43 ,

SECRETARY  M Roche   Proposed S Reed ,Second J Roberts,   55

Allen Meehan Prop Willie Mc Carty. Second  J Mc Laughlin,  40

Assistant Secretary    Val Flood, Proposed N Smith, Sec Liam Keogh.

Treasurer Willie Butler ,Proposed  S Reed ,Sec  M Roche.

Assistant treasurer  L Darling ,Proposed  G Daly Sec J Cleary .

IHU Delegates S Read, Proposed, Ray Benison, Second H Byrne.                                                             A Meehan, Proposed H Byrne, Second Peter Kelly ,

Liberator   H Byrne, Proposed J Mc Laughlin ,Second G Daly ,

Transport managers J Roberts, Proposed J Mc Laughlin ,Second K Barry                                     S Read ,Propped J Cleary ,Second P Smith,

AUDITORS E Fitzgerald, P Fagan, Proposed G Daly, Second T Byrne..

NEW MEMBERS

2 NEW MEMBERS OLD CASTLE

2 NEW MEMBERS TRIM

Proposed T Byrne ,Second T Mc Laughlin.

T Byrne Proposed

THAT THE RACE PROGRMANS FROM EACH CLUB BE GIVEN TO ALL THE CLUBS BEFORE THE AGM TO VOTE ON THE RACE PROGRAMS SO AS THE MEMBERS CAN DECIDE ON THE RACE PROGRAN FOR THAT COMING YEAR .

The chairman said the procedure is the clubs submit the race programs to the fed secretaries and the club sects / presidents vote on their preference as per ISRF rules.

There was no proposal from any club to change the procedures. So it stays as it is .

Rules passed at the 2015 AGM.

1 MOTION  FROM ISRF COMMITTEE

THAT THE POINTS PER FEDERATION RACES BE INCREASED FROM 100 TO 250 POINTS.IN RACES WITH 2000 BIRDS. OR MORE..

3 MOTION   FROM ISRF COMMITTEE
THE FEDERATION WILL UPHOLD ALL DOMESTIC CLUB RULES REGARDING THE SETTING AND CHECKING TIMES FOR CLOCKS PROVIDING THE RULES DO NOT CONTRAVENE FEDERATION OR IHU RULES.

4 MOTION  FROM ISRF COMMITTEE

RULE 58  TO BE CHANGED TO  THAT THE  MINIMUM NUMBER OF BIRDS PER CRATE BE AS FOLLOWS, INLAND FEDERATION 20 OLD BIRDS, 20 YOUNG BIRDS, OPEN RACES 18 BIRDS, CHANNEL RACES 16 BIRDS FRANCE. RACES  14 BIRDS. MAXIMUM OF 25 BIRDS IN CRATES FOR INLAND RACES.

5 MOTION  FROM ISRF COMMITTEE

RULE 73 TO BE CHANGED TO …THAT LONG RANGE WEATHER FORECAST BE USED BEFORE RACE  MARKING.  DECISION TO BE MADE FRIDAY AT 1 O CLOCK (PM) IF RACE MARKING IS TO BE CHANGED.

6 MOTION   FROM ISRF COMMITTEE

RULE 68  TO BE CHANGED TO  ALL CLUBS IN OPEN RACES  TO TEXT ISRF SECRETARY WITH TOP 6 VELOCITYS WITHIN ONE HOUR OF CLUB RESULT BEING DONE,ALLOWING A PROVISIONAL ISRF RESULT TO BE PUBLISHED ON THE DAY OF THE RACE.

11 MOTION FROM BLANCHARDSTOWN RPC                   

THAT A RACE BE HELD IN MEMORY OF KEITH WALKER

The chairman explained there was all ready a race the first Penzance open race .

Proposed by e Fitzgerald THERE BE A TROPHY FOR 1916 . FOR A RACE NEAREST TO EASTER

Passed

DRUG TESTING

16 MOTION FROM CELTIC INVITATION
DRUG TESTING TO BE SENT OFF TO THE LAB FOR TESTING WITHIN 7 DAYS OF TESTING AND TESTED FANCIERS BE NOTIFIED OF RESULTS.

TRANSPORTERS

21 MOTION FROM BLANCHARDSTOWN RPC

THAT CRATES BE LOADED IN A VERTICAL AND SYSTEMATIC ORDER.

GENERAL RUNNING OF THE ISRF

22  MOTION  FROM BLANCHARDSTOWN RPC

THAT THE  I.S.R.F ELECT A PRO TO PROMOTE  THE SPORT.

 A  discussion took place REGARDING 22  MOTION 

The chairman asked the clubs to ask their Members if they were interested in the pro job.

Meeting closed.

	IRISH SOUTH ROAD FEDERATION WEEKLY WINNERS 2015
POSIT	DATE	RACE POINT	NAME	CLUB	RING	BIRDS	MEMBERS	MILES	YARDS	VELOCIETY
1	18/04/2015	THURLES	BRENDAN DUNNE & SONS	Clondalkin RPC	IHU-14-S-32098	11671	495	74	1713	1329.725
1	25/04/2015	TRAMORE	M/M S HUNT & FAM	SARSFIELD RPC	IHU-13-S-139168	11078	539	87	366	1830.119
1	04/05/2015	PILMORE BEACH	ROBERT BRENNAN	CABRA RPC	IHU-13-S-73943	11544	499	121	229	2109.042
1	09/05/2015	MALLOW	JOHN BRADY & SON	DUBLIN NORTH EAST	IHU-13-S-40187	11084	494	136	1670	1612.258
1	16/05/2015	SKIBBEREEN	MADDEN BROS	DUBLIN NORTH COUNTY	IHU-14-S-076099	10012	487	184	771	1779.34
1	23/05/2015	BARLEYCOVE OPEN	M HOOLAHAN SNR	SARSFIELD RPC	IHU-14-S-36443	5808	410	193	107	1580.16
1	30/05/2015	PILMORE BEACH	MARTIN MCMANUS	CABRA RPC	IHU-14-S-126548	9407	468	121	830	1743.564
1	30/05/2015	TRURO OB OPEN	JOE & JASON CARABINI	EAST WALL AND DISTRICT	IHU-14-S-23551	1556	308	219	1454	1237.99
1	06/06/2015	PILMORE BEACH	DARREN MURPHY	NORTHSIDE AND DISTRICT	IHU-13-S-90234	9801	465	124	687	2121.386
1	07/06/2015	TALBENNY OPEN	KAVANAGH&TOUTY	BALLYMUN RPC	IHU-14-S-89298	1649	377	122	1131	1227.813
1	13/06/2015	MALLOW	JOHN FARRELL	CABRA RPC	IHU-13-S-89767	6494	394	131	1139	1480.505
1	13/06/2013	PENZANCE  OPEN	M. TIMMINS	FINGLAS RPC	IHU-14-S-132722	1543	341	228	1480	1097.788
1	19/06/2015	PENZANCE  OPEN	MR&MRS D DUNNE & GSON	GREENHILLS AND DISTRICT	IHU-13-S-79042	2281	385	223	1435	1196.109
1	20/06/2015	SKIBBEREEN	V FLOOD & SON	DUBLIN NORTH EAST	GB-14-D-6513	4554	355	184	1019	1737.214
1	26/06/2015	ST MALO OB OPEN	WILLIE MCCARTHY	CABRA RPC	IHU-12-S-89465	795	362	382	681	1381.649
1	27/06/2015	SKIBBEREEN	ROBERT BRENNAN	CABRA RPC	IHU-13-S-73949	4149	301	177	292	2150.18
1	04/07/2015	BARLEYCOVE OB OPEN	A. FARRELL	FINGLAS RPC	IHU-14-S-123086	3427	304	198	272	2101.76
1	11/07/2015	THURLES	DONAL KELLY	CABRA RPC	GB-15-E-05279	5329	401	79	438	1916.899
1	18/07/2013	THURLES	M/M S HUNT & FAMILY	SARSFIELD RPC	IHU-15-S-139100	8913	313	76	259	2068.727
1	25/07/2015	PILMORE BEACH	W KELLY	RIALTO	IHU-15-S-40160	9542	331	119	487	1467.85
1	1/08/2012	MALLOW	CURRAN & RUSH	Shelbourne Premier	IHU-15-S-003537	8708	318	132	1743	1848.109
1	8/08/2013	SKIBBEREEN	DYLAN & DANIEL BOYLAN	CABRA RPC	IHU-15-S-026086	5520	276	176	1486	1348.748
1	15/08/2015	BARLEYCOVE YB OPEN	N&N SMITH	GREENHILLS AND DISTRICT	IHU-15-S-036129	2935	216	194	1624	1749.434
1	21/08/2015	THURLES	ROBBIE DALY	NORTHSIDE AND DISTRICT	IHU-15-S-001800	10494	372	83	718	2112.201
1	29/08/2015	TALBENNY YB OPEN	M BYRNE & SONS	SHELBOURNE PREMIE	IHU-15-S-144294	309	1809	118	958	1583.39
1	29/08/2015	PILMORE BEACH	T. SWEENEY & SONS	FINGLAS RPC	IHU-15-S-035232	369	9133	122	19	1940.346
1	05/09/2015	MALLOW	JOHN ALYMER & SONS	CABRA RPC	IHU-15-S-144208	344	7157	131	516	1359.804
1	12/09/2015	CASTLETOWN	DONAL KELLY	CABRA RPC	IHU-15-S-075053	255	4987	157	19	1899.256
1	19/09/2015	SKIBBEREEN YB OPEN	T.MC LOUGHLIN & SON	FINGLAS RPC	IHU-15-S-035116	241	4159	177	1686	1684.054

The Irish South Road Federation awards for 2015 have just been confirmed. The committee would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the winners and to wish everyone good luck for a great racing season in 2016.