The Department of Tourism, Culture & Sport recently approved a proposal from the Irish American Football Association to obtain a set of top quality American football goal posts from the USA. The posts, which were ordered last week, are being supplied by Gilman Gear, who are suppliers to the NFL and many major college football teams. These posts, will be delivered to Tallaght Stadium within the next few weeks.
Funding for the goal posts comes from the Departments Sports Capital Programme which is funded from National Lottery proceeds. While some locally produced regulation posts have been in use in Ireland over [...]

The IAFL has received expressions of interest from groups/individuals in five locations who are interested in setting up new teams and joining the league. These potential teams are at varying stages of development with some being more advanced than others. The IAFL Board will be contacting these groups over the next couple of weeks to ascertain their stage of development and make a decision on whether or not to admit them as associate members with formative membership. It should be noted that there is usually a high rate of attrition at the expression of interest stage. The potential teams are [...]