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posted 06/30/2009 Parents and Players of the ISYL:
I would like to first thank you all for a great start to the sesaon. It has not been the best for practice time or competition due to the weather but hopefully July will be a better month for all of us. We have a very busy month coming up with many games for all age groups. Please mark your calendars for Saturday, July 18 when we will host a Field Day. Teams from New Haven, New York, Philadelphia and of course all of our new local clubs will be traveling to Canton to play football, hurling and girls games. This will be an all day event starting at 9:00 am so please plan accordingly.
I also want to remind everyone that since you are a registered member/player of the ISYL you should not be playing with any other clubs in the area without permission from me the chairperson of the ISYL and our board. You can not play for two different clubs or organizatoins. I realize it may be difficult to understand how these processes work but I hope that each member would understand that your loyalty is to the ISYL first and not to any other club or organization in the area or city. We offer more to our players than any other group such as football, hurling, girls football and camogie. There is no reason to go anywhere else. If we are to find out our players are practicing or participating in competition, etc with another organization we will need to take further action. I hope it does not come down to this. This is not what we are about but as we get bigger we need to have policies in place that we all must abide by. When we travel to a competition and do not have enough players we do have the opportunity to amalgamate with other clubs to make one team. This is the only time we should be playing with another club and this is done prior to attending a match and approved by both clubs.
The NEDYC has worked extremely hard this year to develop local competition and encourage new clubs to join the Northeast Region. They have signed up 6 additional clubs in New England. This is fantastic and hopefully there are more on the way. The Divisional Committee is meeting every couple of weeks with each of these groups to put a schedule together that will work for all of us. This will be finalized in the next day or so.
I hope that each member of the ISYL will respect what we are doing and help showcase our Gaelic Games to each of these new groups. They all want what we have.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hestitate to contact me. Thank you again for your understanding and for being a member of the ISYL.
Ellen Joyce
Chairperson
