Membership of the FAI Coaches Association includes free entry to a draw for 10 pairs of Premium Tickets to Senior Home games at the Aviva stadium. Today we drew our 10 winners of 2 Premium Tickets to the Senior International Friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday May 26th.

The winning Usernames were 100001, 100011, 100042, 100077, 100096, 100105, 100127, 100200, 100241 and 100323 and emails giving details have been sent to the lucky winners.

Karl O’Shaughnessy is FAI Coach Education Officer, Ireland U17 Women’s GK Coach and FAI Women’s Emerging Talent U19 Head Coach in Dublin. In this article Karl loks at "Personal Values in Coaching" and shares the values he believes in.

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Throughout this season, Roy Hodgson and Shane Long have shared an objective. Now, with that goal of Premier League safety for West Bromwich Albion long since achieved, it is a destination they have in common. Both will soon be heading for UEFA EURO 2012 in Poland and Ukraine, although on this occasion they will be on different sides, with Hodgson in the England dugout and Long lining up in attack for Republic of Ireland.

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The Republic of Ireland Under 15s and 16s have some "Open" Training Sessions coming up and all interested Coaches are invited to attend. Coaching Staff will preview the sessions and debreief all attendess at the end of each session.

All training sessions will take place in the AUL Complex in Dublin.

Sunday April 15th Under 16 at 11am

Saturday April 21 Under 15 at 12.15pm and 3.30pm

Sunday April 22 Under 15 at 11.30am and 2.30pm

Respected British author, Simon Kuper won the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year award in 1994 for his book Football Against the Enemy. His latest work, Soccernomics, co-written with Stefan Syzmanski, is a mind-blowing look at football like no other. Here is his take on Barcelona's success.

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