IMRA AGM 23
| Author | Date | Message |
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| Linda Rowden | Oct 20 2023, 5:50pm | The IMRA AGM will take place this year on Saturday November 11th at 2pm in The Royal Hotel in Bray after the Powerscourt Ridge prizegiving, refreshments and raffle take place. Motions, including amendments to the Constitution, must be received by the Secretary at least 14 days before the date of the AGM . Therefore, please forward any motions to the Secretary at secretaryatimradotie by Saturday 28th October 2023. The names of the proposers and seconder of a motion must be submitted with the motion, and one of these people must be present to speak to the motion at the AGM. Motions may only be proposed and seconded by members who will have full voting rights at the AGM. Amendments to motions can be taken in accordance with the Standing Orders agreed at the AGM. Motions passed at an AGM come into effect at the end of the AGM. All committee roles are open for nomination and election at the AGM. We welcome nominations for committee roles. If you would like to put yourself forward for election to the committee please do not hesitate to contact IMRA President, Miriam Maher, at presidentatimradotie Nominations for committee roles should be received by 9th November. The process for nomination for a committee role and for submitting a motion for the AGM is set out in the Constitution which is available here. https://www.imra.ie/constitution/ Key dates: 1. Saturday 28th October: Last day for submitting motions by email to secretaryatimradotie 2. Thursday 9th November: Last day for submitting proposals for committee roles by email to presidentatimradotie 3. Saturday 11th November: AGM at 2pm |
| Linda Rowden | Oct 26 2023, 6:32pm | Hi all, This is a reminder that any motions need to be emailed to secretaryatimradotie by 28th October and proposals for committee roles to presidentatimradotie by 9th November 2023 in advance of AGM on 11th November 2023. Linda |
| Linda Rowden | Nov 8 2023, 5:37pm | Hi all, A reminder that the AGM takes place on Saturday, 11th November at 2pm in The Royal Hotel, Bray Agenda is as follows: IMRA AGM, 11th November 2023, The Royal Hotel, Bray 1. Apologies 2. Adoption of standing orders 3. Minutes of previous AGM 4. President's Report 5. Treasurer's Report 6. Honorary Auditor's Report 7. Race Permits and Route Report, and Mandatory Kit - 2024 Update 8. Members' Opinion Survey Presentation 9. Election of New Executive Committee 10 AOB No motions were received before the 28th October deadline. The minutes from the 2022 AGM are available upon request by emailing secretary@imradotie Tomorrow, 9th November is the last day to email president@imradotie for anyone interested in going forward for a committee position. The AGM is your opportunity to have an input into the 2024 IMRA year so I hope to see many of you there on Saturday. Linda |
| Miriam Maher | Nov 8 2023, 6:10pm | Feedback from the Opinion Survey at the AGM Our members have spoken! We are delighted to be able to share the results of the first members satisfaction survey, undertaken in October 2023. The objective of this survey was to gather member feedback on IMRA, more specifically: Events and races, Membership, Marketing and communications, Diversity and inclusion, Coaching, Some demographics, and overall satisfaction. At the AGM on Saturday, David Power will give a short presentation on the full results of this survey. A full copy of the presentation and analysis will be posted onto the forum following the AGM. We encourage you to read through the summary and the full presentation/analysis. This data will guide decision making and prioritisation by the incoming IMRA committee. In advance of David’s presentation, he has put together an advance summary of the data collected, and the feedback received. Link to the summary here: https://media.imra.ie/ad-hoc/2023_IMRA_Survey_Summary.pdf On behalf of the committee, I would like to thank David Power and Brian Kitson for the extensive time and effort they put into the design and delivery of the survey. Their analysis of the feedback received has resulted in a very professional and comprehensive document that will aid the incoming committee in their focus for next year. Miriam Maher |
| John Murray | Nov 9 2023, 3:49pm | Great work by David and Brian on organising the survey. In addition to that, here are some rough stats I extracted from this years IMRA 2023 Calendar for anyone interested. No. of Races per Region: Leinster - 54 Munster - 54 North West - 8 South East - 5 Total Race Entry Fees per Region: Leinster - €663 Munster - €858 North West - €56 South East - €35 Average Race Fee per Region: Leinster - €12.28 Munster - €15.89 North West - €7.00 South East - €7.00 Total Income per Region: Leinster - €57,827 Munster - €59,331 North West - €858 South East - €663 Total No. of Race Entries per Region: Leinster – 5,410 Munster – 3,612 North West – 340 South East – 131 Total No. of Metres Climbed per Region: Leinster – 55,850m Munster – 34,747m North West – 3,190m South East – 1,850m Total No. of race KM’s per Region: Leinster – 1,314km Munster – 953km North West – 63km South East – 55km Average Race Fee per KM run: Leinster - €0.50 Munster - €0.90 North West - €0.90 South East - €0.64 |
| Brendan Lawlor | Nov 9 2023, 6:07pm | Some very interesting statistics there John, thank you for that analysis The big standout is the major growth in Munster hillrunning in the past 5-10 years. Major kudos to everyone in Munster IMRA who have made that possible.. hopefully the other regions continue to grow and develop in the years to come I particularly liked the Average race fee per km metric.. some of the nav challenge or championship races can be serious value for money using that metric ! |
| Warren Swords | Nov 9 2023, 6:13pm | Really interesting stats. "Total No. of Metres Climbed per Region: Leinster – 55,850m Munster – 34,747m North West – 3,190m South East – 1,850m" Perhaps us mountain goats in Leinster can lend our altimeters to our Munster colleagues to help them identify some mountains to run up. |
| Peter O'Farrell | Nov 9 2023, 8:16pm | Great stats On the metres climbed per kilometre ran metric the North West are the clear winners with 50m/km and the sunny south east are the flattest on about 33m/km. Unsurprisingly Leinster and it's summer league ensure the highest average amount of runners per race at just over 100. |
| Stuart Scott | Nov 9 2023, 9:19pm | Interesting stats alright! What are the median stats? I'd imagine they're skewed quite a bit by the high profile races? |
| Brian Mullins | Nov 9 2023, 11:32pm | Altimeters in Munster don’t bother registering metres ascended on Coillte fire road as that is considered cheating. They are all calibrated to measure actual unmarked open mountain only, so I’d say that’s why the stats are skewed! |
| Mícheál O'Mullain | Nov 10 2023, 12:29am | As this is the Irish MOUNTAIN running Association it would be interesting to see the statistics that excluded: 1. Trails, 2, fire roads 3. Tarmac road sections. 4. Anywhere more than 20km from Ó Connell Bridge. What is noteworthy from the statistics as furnished is the relative income of Munster/Leinster given the huge advantage Leinster has in having Dublin and its population. Given the island’s population it’s understandable that we need to broaden the appeal but having a fire road race under the same umbrella as IC races devalues the “Mountain” aspect of the brand. |
| Alan Ayling | Nov 10 2023, 4:38pm | Should we also be excluding the snorkel-requiring sections? Slí Gaeltacht Muscraí and Ardgillan spring to mind. |
| Mícheál O'Mullain | Nov 10 2023, 5:02pm | Ha!! Fair point Alan! |
| Andrew Hanney | Nov 11 2023, 8:06pm | Well done committee on a great summary today of the year. Best of luck to the newly elected committee. Anyone that goes the AGM should get a volunteer tick ;) motion for next year :) |
| Brendan Lawlor | Nov 12 2023, 10:24am | Big thank you to our outgoing committee for all your hard work on our behalf over the past year. A special word of mention to the irrepressible and unflappable Conor O Farrell who stepped down yesterday after many years as our Results and records secretary. Race directors at busy Leinster races will know just how important Conor’s work has been in straightening out race results and queries. Thank you for all your hard work Conor and best of luck to Jeff Swords who is taking over from Conor. |
| Richard Nunan | Nov 12 2023, 11:48am | Well said Brendan, results are a core part of our race organization. It can be a thankless job, the training, the matts, the constant tweaking and integrating of the chip timing.. and the thousands of result queries and requests. Happy to hear he will stay on as part of the Technical sub-committee. So we will still have him as a leg in.. Congrats again to all the committee who have done a stellar job last year and to the incoming 2024 committee. As was on display yesterday, lots for us to plan and get on with in 2024 ! Thanks again to all who attended. |
| Miriam Maher | Nov 12 2023, 12:23pm | Thank you very much to all that attended yesterday at the AGM. It was great to have the opportunity to reflect on all that was achieved in the past year within IMRA and also to consider key areas of focus for the year ahead. As someone observed to me last night, the discussions at the AGM demonstrated the willingness to celebrate all that is good about IMRA while also being prepared to evolve the organisation in line with new ways of enhancing the experience of being part of IMRA. Thank you again to David Power for presenting on the outcome from the Members Opinion Survey. Full details behind David's presentation are available at this link https://media.imra.ie/ad-hoc/2023_IMRA_Survey_Report.pdf The new committee voted in for the year ahead is: President: Miriam Maher Secretary: Linda Rowden Junior Development Officer: Elizabeth Wheeler Treasurer: Stuart Scott Equipment Officer: Lillian Deegan Results and Records: Jeff Swords Races Coordinator: Liam Vines Munster Regional Representative: Brian Flannelly High Performance Officer: Robbie Williams WMRA & AAI Rep: Richard Nunan Safety Officer: Alan Ayling Webmaster: Eoin Keith Ordinary Member: Louis Mullee Honorary Auditor: Maike Jurgen Echoing Richard and Brendan's comments about Conor's enormous contribution over the past number of years. We're very glad he's not going too far and welcome Jeff Swords onto the committee in his place! Also thanks for Lillian for her immense contribution as races coordinator for several years. We're equally glad that she is going to be still on the committee, albeit in a different role now. Lastly, it was so good to get the chance to present the awards across a range of categories last night at the end of year social. I just had to stand up and focus on delivering the right award to the right person...Lillian, as usual, did all the hard work in the background ordering, assembling and sorting out who got what. Looking forward to what's ahead of us all in the coming year and ensuring that IMRA is as accessible and welcoming to all newcomers that the rest of us have experienced it to be over many years now. Miriam |
| Ciaran McAleenan | Nov 12 2023, 1:41pm | Congratulations to everyone taking on their IMRA role for 23-24 season. At NIMRA we look forward to continuing the great working relationship we have fostered in recent times. Best wishes Ciarán |
| Laura Flynn | Nov 23 2023, 12:46pm | A belated thanks to the outgoing committee for their work during the past year, especially to Conor who’s stepping down after many years of service. Best wishes to the incoming committee. |
| Ben Conroy | Nov 23 2023, 5:19pm | Hey all, Thanks a million to all the outgoing and incoming committee members. Can see from the AGM there is so much work put in by you guys and a lot of it behind the scenes. Also I really like the idea of setting up of sub-committees for specific tasks great way for folk to offer their skills up to help out. Will keep an eye out for them. Well done too on the survey too inciteful and great presentation breaking it down. Can the minutes be shared on here please apols if I missed them before. Kind Regards Ben |
| Miriam Maher | Nov 23 2023, 7:53pm | Hi Ben Thanks for the feedback, always appreciated! We're in the process of finalising the minutes from the AGM and expect to have them ready to make available on request, along with the reports presented at the AGM, shortly. We will post when that's the case. The new committee meets for the first time in early December, we will start the process of follow up on the various matters discussed at the AGM after that meeting. All the best Miriam |
| Linda Rowden | Dec 7 2023, 3:28pm | Hi all, The minutes from the 2023 AGM are finalised. If anyone would like a copy please email secretary@imra.ie and I will email a copy by return. Thanks, Linda |
