2013

Our U10s will train this Saturday morning at 9.30, as per normal. Members of the Rennes GAA team, our guests this weekend, will help out with the Academy. The club have also organised a bus to Mayo v Roscommon on Sunday for U12s and U10s. If you are interested in sending your son or daughter along, text Kevin at 087 284 8324 to book your place. Cost of bus is €5 and you’ll need to purchase a juvenile ticket €5 in Supervalu in advance. Any parents who wish to come on the bus are very welcome.

UPDATE, SATURDAY 2pm: We had a great morning at Debut Day. We had a total of 52 young players and a huge turnout of older players and adults. It is tied in with the visit by Rennes GAA to Ballinrobe this weekend, so head on over HERE to read all about it, and to see the photos. Here’s the pre-match pep-talk by Donal Vaughan, Noel Connelly, Niall Murphy and Alan Flannery, with Liam Horan as master of ceremonies. Plus this VIDEO of the team being clapped onto the field by parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, friends, coaches, Rennes players and club supporters. They’re now fully inducted in the club colours: may it be a long and fruitful innings for each and every one of them. And we’d like to echo Des May’s sentiments in this video: well done!   In 2012, we inaugurated our Debut Day – when we mark the first year in which our U8s wear the club jersey. Last year it was against Carras on a beautiful Saturday morning – this Saturday (June 15), we are hoping for good weather for the 2013 Debut Day when our young players play Hollymount-Carramore, in Flanagan Park, Ballinrobe, at 11am. Players, family and friends are asked to be there at 10.30am for the ‘welcome to the club colours’ pep-talk by club chairman Alan Flannery, plus photos and the parade of the players onto the field before the game. This is a family day – we had three generations of some families there last year – and we hope to see similar numbers again this year. This is the start of what will hopefully be a rewarding and exciting journey in the club colours for all our young players. Bring your cameras to capture the memories. This year, we will have as special guests the members of the Rennes GAA team who are visiting Ballinrobe this weekend. More on Rennes trip HERE

Rennes GAA are on their way – not often you see Wren Boys in June. Cover of our Rennes event programme, produced by our Community Officer Donal McCormack (download full programme HERE) Delighted also to mark the visit with the The Wren/Rennes song

With the upcoming Connacht Senior Football Championship Semi-Final, Mayo – V’s – Roscommon due to take place on Sunday 16th June in Elverys MacHale Park, Castlebar, the following ticketing details will apply:   Cáirde Mhaigheo Season Ticket Holders Season Ticket holders will be able to collect their tickets from the office of Elverys MacHale Park during the following times: Thursday 6th June – 10.00a.m. to 7.00p.m. Friday 7th June – 10.00a.m. to 7.00p.m. Saturday 8th June – 10.00a.m. to 12.00p.m. Any Cáirde Mhaigheo Season Ticket Holder that wishes to have their ticket posted out should contact the office of Elverys MacHale Park on 094-9250487 before Saturday 8thJune Cáirde Mhaigheo Season Ticket Holders will avail of a €5 discount on their match ticket.   General Public Tickets for the General Public will be on sale from the office of Elverys MacHale Park during the following times: Tuesday 11th June – 10.00a.m. to 6.00p.m. Wednesday 12th June – 10.00a.m. to 6.00p.m. Thursday 13th June  – 10.00a.m. to 6.00p.m. Friday 14th June – 10.00a.m. to 6.00p.m. Saturday 15th June – 10.00a.m. to 12.00p.m.   Ticket Prices Stand – €25 Terrace – €20 Juvenille – €5 Student/O.A.P. – Must pay full price and will receive refund on match day upon producing a valid I.D.

For more on the Rennes trip to Ballinrobe, June 14-16, 2013, go HERE For more on the Rennes trip to Ballinrobe, June 14-16, 2013, go HERE For more on the Rennes trip to Ballinrobe, June 14-16, 2013, go HERE For more on the Rennes trip to Ballinrobe, June 14-16, 2013, go HERE For more on the Rennes trip to Ballinrobe, June 14-16, 2013, go HERE

There will be a full meeting of Ballinrobe GAA club on Tuesday night next, June 4, at 9o’c in O’Malley’s meeting room, Glebe Street. All club members are urged to attend.  

Is this a first, U8s Skills Academy called off due to a stag party? We can’t be sure, but we’re suspicious about a certain man’s motives. Now read on. Our U8s have been busy boys and girls these past few months with their Skills Academy get-togethers each Wednesday and Saturday. In what many people initially believed to be a rare display of a soft centre by Academy coordinator Alan Flannery (an original Hard from Rahard, one of the true-blue real-deals), the U8s have been given tomorrow morning (Saturday, June 1) off. “The weather is promised good, it’s a Bank Holiday weekend, and maybe the U8s will want to sleep in a little this Saturday morning. So we’ve taken a day off, and we’re back into the swing of it next Wednesday at 6.30pm,” said Alan. But there could be more to this than meets the eye. Now read on again, and read the family names closely. We wish the Flannery and Killeen families and entourage the very best on their double Stag weekend in Dublin in advance of forthcoming nuptials for David Flannery (who marries our Executive Committee member Ms Grimes) and Colm Killeen, whose bride-to-be is Ms Costello from the town of Moate, Co. Westmeath. The U10s will have their usual Skills Academy tomorrow morning at 9.30.  

We play Davitts in the Mayo JFC on Bank Holiday Monday at 1pm, in Ballindine. Referee Ciaran Byrne, Eastern Gaels