Safeguarding

The Sport Ireland Safe Sport app is an information and guidance tool for everyone involved in sport for children and young people. The app is aimed at creating greater awareness and understanding about safeguarding and best practice principles in children's sport.

The National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts 2012 to 2016 provide a statutory basis for the vetting of persons carrying out relevant work with children or vulnerable persons. The Act also creates offences and penalties for persons who fail to comply with its provisions.

Donal Gillespie is Cycling Ireland's Mandated Person. Under the legislated, a Mandated Person, is required to report any knowledge, belief or reasonable suspicion that a child is being harmed, or at risk of being harmed.