Club Ethos and Rules

Deise Archery Club (DAC) is a traditional Field Archery Club. As such, it only uses and promotes the use of traditional equipment - bare bows, and wooden arrows with feather fletching - and does not allow the use of compound bows or any artificial aids, sights, or techniques on its courses. Measuring of distances to targets by pacing out, or by other means, is not allowed.
It promotes the use of instinctive shooting and the Mediterranean Loose, as these have been used by archers of all cultures over the centuries, and its courses are designed exclusively for the use of traditional equipment and traditional shooting techniques.

DAC’s primary focus is on facilitating the enjoyment by its members of traditional archery in safety. All other considerations - competitive, commercial, financial, and social, are secondary to this.

1.Yearly fees are as follows:
Senior (over 18): 35 Euros.
Junior (12 to 17): 10 Euros.
Cub(Under 12) 10 Euros.

Fees are payable to the treasurer before the end of August each year.

Weekly Shoot Fee:
5 Euros. (Seniors) 1 Euro (Juniors & Cubs.)

2. DAC members are fully insured by their membership fee. This insurance covers DAC members not only on our own courses, but  on any archery course in Ireland. It also covers exhibition shoots, and roving mark shoots, wherever they may be in the country. We are also covered to hold one major social event yearly.

Only fully paid up members of the club, or visiting archers with valid membership cards of an insured archery organisation, will be allowed shoot on the courses.

3. Newcomers will receive training at the practice bosses. However, when they are
fit to shoot on the courses they must become members before going on course.

4. The DAC committee shall comprise of: Chairman, Secretary, Safety Officer, Treasurer, Public Relations Officer, and the two Course Directors. They are
elected by majority vote at the A.G.M.

5. The DAC committee has the power to refuse an individual membership, or revoke or refuse to renew an individual’s membership, only by a unanimous decision of the committee.

 6. Fully insured Non-DAC members are allowed to shoot our courses only at the discretion of committee members present on the day.

7. DAC members are free to hold membership of any other archery organisation.