15 May 2001 EGM CALLED- 2004 WORLDS BID NOT TO PROCEED
At its meeting on Saturday 12th May at the Coors Light National Championships the Executive of the Irish Surfing Association agreed to call an Extraordinary General Meeting of the Association for June at which the Executive will resolve not to proceed with Ireland's bid to host the World Surfing Games in 2004.
The debate on the bid has split the surfing fraternity down the middle and the Executive believe that it could be extremely damaging to the ISA in the long term to continue with the bid. The Executive hope that all the surfers of Ireland will respect and support this resolution which it believes will lead to a strengthening of the Association and so support it in pursuing its other varied and diverse projects and responsibilities within the sport.
The ISA Executive and Officials would also like to express their unanimous regret at the resignation of their President Mr Brian Britton of Donegal. No-one has done more for the ISA since he helped found it over 30 yeas ago.
It is not possible to calculate the loss to the ISA of his time and energy and his commitment to surfing, we can only offer our profound thanks for his work in the development of the sport, the clubs houses that have been established, the teams that have travelled the world, the young people who have taken up the sport and the considerable international reputation that he has engineered for Ireland, all from the most modest of resources.
We wish him every success in the future and are very glad to note that he will still remain, as he said in his statement, an "ordinary" member of the Irish Surfing Association.
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