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BY DAN WALLACE
National Panel
The start of the new year saw
some changes to the IRFU
National Referees Panel.
Congratulations to Robbie Jenkinson
who was promoted to Level 3 following
some excellent domestic performances.
Robbie joins Michael Forrestal and
Paul O’Connor. Colm Roche, John
Flynn and Sam Holt were moved to
the Level 2 panel where they join longserving
referee John Carvill and Glenn
Sheridan.
Padraic Reidy moves into Level 1.
Padraic recently refereed the All-Ireland
Junior Cup Final. He joins Dermot
Blake, Andrew Cole, Nigel Correll, Paul
Haycock, and Cillian Hogan. This brings
a total of 14 Leinster Rugby Referee on
the IRFU National Referee Panel.
We wish them all well for the remainder
of the season.
Seminar Update
We had over 200 referees
at our first referees seminar
of the season in January.
The topic of the seminar was
‘Game Management’ and
the session was enabled by
Sean Gallagher from the IRFU
alongside Jim McCourt from
the Leinster Disciplinary panel
and International TMO Brian
MacNeice.
The presentation went through a number
of topics including Positive Referee
Behaviors and some guidelines on
working with coaches before, during
and after games, developing positive
relationships with captains and players
alike and also how to work and deal
with external factors.
Want to get
involved?
Feel free to make contact with the Leinster Rugby Referees
at hayley.whyte@leinsterrugby.ie If you are interested
in becoming a referee get in contact with us through our
Facebook, our website www.leinsterrugbyreferees.ie or
through twitter @leinsterreferee.
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