Changes to reporting of GAA injuries sustained by male – adult and juvenile players.
As and from 1st June 2025, the process for reporting all injuries to the GAA Injury Benefit Scheme has been changed by Croke Park and affects all clubs.
Up to the end of May, injuries were notified by the Na Fianna Injury Administrator and then registered by her via an online portal.
From now onwards, all injuries must be reported by the injured player or their parent (in the case of younger players).
Reporting is via the Foireann system (Foireann.ie).
Na Fianna will not have any access to reporting new injuries.
To notify the Injury Benefit Scheme of an injury, you must sign into the Foireann system. Nearly all players will have a Foireann login, as this was needed during Covid for players of all ages, attending training sessions and matches.
If you do not have a Foireann login, you have the option of creating one.
Once logged in, you will need to select the Profile option on the left-hand side of the page.
When the Profile page is displayed, you will see “player actions” as one of the options at the top of the page. Select this option and then “create an injury notification”.
All your details should be displayed there. Please check that you are happy that they are correct and then either update them if needed or confirm that they are correct.
Moving on to the next stage, you will be asked to select the team you are involved with and the date of the injury. Please note that the injury must be reported within 60 days – day 1 being the date the injury occurred. Anything outside that date will not be accepted.
The correct date is also very important as this will be checked by the Injury Benefit scheme against the date recorded on the referee’s report.
Once updated you will be brought to the next page, and at a minimum you will be asked to supply details of the injury and whether it occurred at a match or a training session/medical or dental claim/if you have private health insurance and the plan name.
Once all the details have been filled in correctly and validated, you will be allowed to review and submit the document.
After that it will be passed on electronically to the Club Secretary to confirm that the details are correct to the best of their knowledge.
As of now, the next stage of the detail is not clear, but I would expect that the injured player will be contacted or notified through Foireann of further documentation required eg medical certification of the injury from the consultant/hospital, player and mentor declaration of the injury, receipts, benefit statements from private insurer (if there is one). I will update this document when I get further information.
If you have any questions in relation to any of the process above, you can contact injuryfund.nafianna.dublin@gaa.ie and I will do my best to help you.
