Your PAL Pack and PAL Guide
As a PAL, the first thing you need to check out is the 2022-2023 PAL Pack! Inside you’ll find all the updates about the programme and key info for this year in an easy-to-read brochure.
The PAL Guide is your essential need-to-know about the details of the programme, all new PALs receive a physical copy of the PAL guide. If you need one sent out to you, contact your Development officer.
Award Levels – Explainers and Requirements
Challenge Area Ideas
Regardless of the size of your Gaisce participant group, people can run out of ideas very quickly on what to do with their Challenge areas, and also what to do for their additional weeks! Check out the support sheets below for some ideas, encourage participants to look through all of our Gaisce Challenge Partners, and you can also reach out directly to your Development Officer to see what can work for different ability levels.
Using the GO Platform
We’ve updated and improved the way we register participants, sign up our PALs, approve participants and sort out invoices. The Gaisce Online (GO) platform better protects PAL and Participant data in line with GDPR, and the information we collect will enable us to continue improving the quality of the programme and the accessibility of Gaisce into the future.
You’ll need to familiarise yourself with:
- Accessing the GO System
- Activating your Participants
- Sorting out payments / creating an invoice
- Approving diary entries
- Changing Participant’s activities
- Filling in a brief survey about the Adventure Journey(s) taken
Participant Record Sheets
My Gaisce Development Officer
Your Gaisce Development officer is here to support you as a PAL to encourage, motivate, engage and inform your Gaisce participants!
We have rejigged our regions to make sure every PAL has excellent support, so see below to see who your Development Officer is this year as there’s been some small changes for 2022.
You will also find information and contact details for Gaisce Development Officers who are supporting other Gaisce projects you may be involved in:
- Supporting Youth people seeking asylum or who have refugee status
- Garda Youth Diversion Projects, Intervention and Probation
- Prisons, Youth Detention and Uniformed Organisations

Siobhan Noctor
(She/Her)
You can reach me at:
siobhan[at]gaisce.ie
086 4403974
I’m the Development Officer of:
(Part-Time)
Donegal, Galway, Mayo, Sligo
Mary Yore
(She/Her)
You can reach me at:
mary[at]gaisce.ie
087 2426293
I’m the Development Officer of:
Cavan, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Offaly, Roscommon, Westmeath
Kate Kelly
(She/Her)
You can reach me at:
kkelly[at]gaisce.ie
087 0941466
I’m the Development Officer of:
Clare, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary
Ger Brady
(She/Her)
You can reach me at:
ger[at]gaisce.ie
087 1646661
I’m the Development Officer of:
D2, D4, D6/D6w D8, D10, D12, D14, D16, D18, D22, D24, South County Dublin, Kildare

Eve O’Brien
(She/Her)
You can reach me at:
eve[at]gaisce.ie
087 9322314
I’m the Development Officer of:
D1, D3, D5, D7, D9, D11, D13, D15, D17, D20 and North County Dublin, Wicklow
Paul Darby
(He/Him)
You can reach me at:
paul[at]gaisce.ie
087 6194868
I’m the Development Officer of:
Carlow, Cork, Kilkenny, Waterford, Wexford
Marion Irwin-Gowran
(She/Her)
You can reach me at:
marion[at]gaisce.ie
087 6290788
I’m the Development Officer of:
Prisons, Youth Detention, Uniformed Organisations, and Dual Award programmes
Garda Youth Diversion Projects (GYDP), Intervention, Probation
Planning Your Local Ceremony
Bronze, and regularly Silver, Gaisce Award ceremonies are organised on a local level by the organisations that offer Gaisce programmes, like schools, colleges and youth services (Gaisce Award Partners).