DUBLIN – Cricket Eire has introduced that Richard Fahey will be a part of the group as its Head of Services and Operations, a job that may oversee the event and implementation of a brand new Nationwide Services Technique and oversee the day-to-day operations of present amenities and facility partnerships.
Richard has held senior administration roles inside the Irish sports activities trade during the last 20 years, together with CEO of Tennis Eire, Director of Membership Licensing and Facility Improvement at The Soccer Affiliation of Eire, and has most just lately been the interim CEO of Hockey Eire.
This new function will primarily serve to ship the high-level aims outlined within the Cricket Eire Strategic Plan 2021-2023, which embody delivering high-quality taking part in and follow amenities in every of the key provincial unions, high-quality indoor amenities in every provincial union, making certain contracted gamers have common entry to high-quality grass amenities, completion of the Excessive-Efficiency Middle indoor and out of doors infrastructure, securing planning permission and funding for the Nationwide Sports activities Campus Stadium Challenge, procuring an improved vary of amenities at worldwide and regional grounds to assist our wants (taking part in and non-playing), securing a rise in cricket golf equipment accessing grant schemes for capital funding in amenities, and overseeing the supply of high-quality neighborhood amenities for cricket golf equipment by native councils.
Warren Deutrom, Chief Government of Cricket Eire, stated: “This can be a comparatively distinctive function with a nationwide governing physique in Eire, so we’re delighted to have attracted a candidate of the calibre of Richard. His expertise and skillset in amenities growth are precisely what we’d like as we enter a brand new period in Irish cricket and can assist drive ahead quite a few programmes outlined as precedence deliverables in our Strategic Plan 2021-2023.”
“Richard’s appointment is one more signal of our willpower to observe via on the Portas Overview suggestions round making certain the health for objective of our amenities in any respect ranges. On this function, he’ll search to place in place high-quality taking part in and follow amenities in every of the key provincial unions, and likewise progress the Nationwide Sports activities Campus Stadium Challenge. We now have moreover requested Richard to take a look at the wants of the regional grounds and assist native golf equipment with their efforts to draw grants and capital funding.”
“Given Richard’s background, I don’t suppose there are a lot of higher certified to ship on our formidable programme for development and improve of cricket amenities throughout Eire, and we very a lot look ahead to welcoming him aboard.”
Richard Fahey stated: “I’m actually wanting ahead to getting caught into this function. There’s a good basis in place from which we will, with the assist of the cricket neighborhood and authorities companies at native and nationwide stage, develop the mandatory infrastructure to develop the sport and assist our high-performance gamers.”
Richard will begin the brand new function on 7 June 2022.
