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It was fantastic to spend the morning engaged in planning for the scale-up of adult recreational football across Ireland as part of the Football Cooperative advisory board and research team. Thanks to Kenneth Grønlund from the Dansk Boldspil-Union (DBU) for sharing their learnings in changing the culture towards recreational football in Denmark, growing healthy society-impacting clubs and the value of strategic collaborations (including those with universities). It was also great to hear presentations from our South East Technological University students; with (newly minted ) Dr. Steve Daly sharing his SROI insights from recreational football in Ireland, demonstrating the value of recreational football to Irish society, Christopher McDermott speaking about the key considerations for scale up and Sarah Doherty discussing the impact that recreational football has on men's physical health. Dr Paula Carroll Football Association of Ireland SETU Research