Entries by Garreth Breen

DBS Transition Year Programme

📢 Calling All 3rd Year Girls! 📢 Want to level up your soccer skills? Join us for an exclusive Girls-Only Assessment Day at DBS International Soccer Academy! Our Full-Time Soccer Program is designed to develop players both on and off the pitch, with a focus on athletic training, individual growth, and skill development. This is […]

Happy New Year

All at the DDSL wish you all a Happy New Year We look look forward to sharing your brilliant work within the game & success in 2025 #happynewyear #2025

FAI Referee Beginner Courses – 2025

Recently we carried out a full review of our Referee Beginner Programme and while we have increased our number nationally significantly over the last number of years we fell the time is right to move to a new model for running our courses. Courses will now take place in two blocks each year to allow […]

Christmas Football for All Indoor Blitz

DDSL organized their first ever Indoor ‘Football for All’ Christmas Blitz in the new fantastic dome at Our Lady’s School Terenure. There were up to 110 Boys/Girls players involved from the ages of 4 to 18 from 10x clubs from all over Dublin. The players had a great fun day…enjoying their football…..some wearing Xmas hats/jumpers…making […]

Have your say! – DDSL Survey for all

The Dublin & District Schoolboys/girls League (DDSL) along with our strategic partners S3 Solutions are beginning the process of developing a strategy for the future development of the league and indeed football in the capital. Part of this process involves completing the largest survey (of all stakeholders) undertaken in Ireland in relation to every part […]

DDSL x 3v3 Football

We are thrilled to announce an exciting new chapter in Irish football: the 1st 3v3 Football Festival, brought to you in partnership with DDSL! This ground-breaking event will take place onSaturday, December 28th at the state-of-the-art Sports Ireland Indoor Dome. It’s a fantastic opportunity for your players to experience a fast-paced, dynamic, and developmental format […]

Dublin’s Q102 and DDSL Launch “IT’S MY GAME”

Dublin’s Q102, in partnership with the Dublin & District Schoolboys’/Girls’ League (DDSL), proudly announces the launch of “It’s My Game,” a cross-platform campaign designed to bring awareness to the issue of abusive behaviour at grassroots football matches across Dublin. In recent years, reports of abusive behaviour toward young players, referees, and coaches have surged, creating […]

DDSL Coach Education – November

Please see below workshops upcoming over the next month. Think they will fill naturally so get booked in 20th November:                Flexibility & Mobility Workshop (Full) 27th November:                TY/ Third Level/ USA Scholarships Parents Information Presentation (Limited Places Available) https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/J9R7HK6 2nd December:                Coaching Skills Workshop (Limited Places Available)  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8M63VB8 5th December:                 Flexibility […]

Childline Christmas Jumper Day

Christmas is getting closer! Along with our charity partner, Childline by ISPCC, we are asking all our clubs to host a Christmas Jumper Day for Childline this December. Get the children, parents and club members involved by choosing a training or match day in December for everyone to wear their most festive and fun Christmas […]