2013

Congratulations & best wishes

At tonight’s Executive Committee meeting, votes of congratulations were passed to Willie Culkeen, on his appointment as Principal of Ballinrobe Community School, and Maurice Horan, on his success in managing Limerick to the National Football League Division Four title. Best wishes were also extended to Paul Finnerty and Louise Conway, who get married next weekend.

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Mayo GAA open evening

An Open evening for all our supporters will be held in Elverys MacHale Park on Friday 10th May starting at 7.00p.m. We will have a jam packed exciting evening for you the supporter where you can meet all our managers and players as well as other exciting activities. Have your face painted in the county colours; meet our Senior Footballers and our Senior Hurlers along with the team managers. Get Autographs, jerseys signed etc. Test yourself with the basic skills of our Gaelic games as the Mayo GAA coaches put you through your paces with their skills testing. View all the latest official Mayo GAA merchandise from our main sponsors Elverys Sports. Get a guided tour around the marvellous facilities in Elverys MacHale Park. We will also launch the 2013 Mayo G.A.A. Kellogs Cúl Camps. We will have music on the evening with loads of free goodies to give away. This is an opportunity not to be missed and a memorable night will be had by all in attendance. The evening kicks off at 7.00p.m. in Elverys MacHale Park, Castlebar. For further information, please email pro.mayo@gaa.ie or telephone 0876282167

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Vote for Quality Street – now!

And, yes, we do mean NOW! Quality Street are down to the last few hours (just over 2 1/2 hours) in their battle to get to the next round of the Red Bull Bedroom Jam 2013. There’s a very strong club connection here. Martin Farragher and Michael Ansbro both play with the club and have done so for many years. Ailise Burke comes from a very strong GAA family – her father Billy is a former Mayo intermediate football championship winner with the club, and has been actively involved in the club all his life. Let’s play our part now to help them over the line. They’re currently leading but many’s a game was lost in the closing minutes. Let’s make sure we do our bit to push them home – just go to the link below and give them 5 stars, Like the song, Tweet it, and add a comment under the video: http://www.redbullbedroomjam.ie/2013-band/quality-street/ It is important to add that link to all your Tweets, Facebook comments etc.

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Photos v Kilmeena U14s

Kilmeena GAA club kindly sent us a great number of pictures from our recent Mayo U14 league clash with them. You can access them HERE, scrolling to the bottom of the page, and click on the link to get all the photos. There are 89 photos there in total. I am onto Kilmeena to find out the photographer’s name so we can credit them here. And thanks to our coaching officer Gerry O’Malley, who made contact with Kilmeena on this.

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Go Games Refereeing Course

Would you like to take your first steps in the world of refereeing? If so there will be a meeting held next Wednesday, 1st May 2013 in McHale Park at 8.30pm for anyone interested in Refereeing Go Game Blitz’s. This is open to any club members. Please contact Tom – 0863216992 if you would like to attend.

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Interest in sports journalism?

Any club member or supporter out there who’s interested in developing their skills? You can be any age. As you may know, the club has a very active publicity wing, and we are now looking to add an additional person or two to our ‘Audioboo team’. Listen to some Audioboos HERE If you’d like to get involved, contact Liam Horan secretary.ballinrobe.mayo@gaa.ie This could be a great addition to your CV, and full training will be provided.

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Vote of thanks

At tonight’s meeting of the Executive Committee of Ballinrobe GAA club, a vote of thanks was passed to the Neale GAA club for their excellent hosting of the recent O’Mara Cup final between Ballinrobe and the Neale.

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Tickets and train for Dubs

Tickets for Mayo v Dublin are available from MacHale Park, Castlebar, today (Wednesday) from 12.30pm to 8pm, and again tomorrow from 12noon to 7pm. Contact the office on 094 92 50487. Meanwhile, any Cáirde Mhaigheo Season Ticket Holder who wishes to take up their option of a ticket is asked to please contact the office in MacHale Park today (Wednesday). Use the phone number above or email mchalepark@mayogaa.com Train arrangements are available HERE

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O’Mara Cup win

Congrats to the senior team who won the O’Mara Cup tonight – beating The Neale in a very entertaining final in Cong, 1-12 to 0-11. Full-time and half-time audioboo reports are HERE (we hasten to add, by the way, that the audioboo from Mellotte’s, The Neale, on the way home was born not out of triumphalism, but out of necessity – there’s a wi-fi network there so we could be sure of a successful upload of the file.) Shane Biggins (who unfortunately had to go off injured, hopefully he will be okay soon – he has suffered enough on the injury front) accepted the cup from Ger McHugh, Chairman, South Mayo GAA board. Well done to the Neale for their excellent hosting of the final. I’m sure they are disappointed tonight and we wish them the very best in this year’s Mayo intermediate league and championship. HERE are some pictures from what was a good night in the club’s history – by the way, those are high resolution pix so you can download and print (someone tell Margaret Killeen and Marian Macken that, please!) Great to see so many supporters out there and family members. To download the pix, just select the pix you want and hit download on the top right. You don’t need to open a Dropbox account. Nothing quite like winning. Hopefully more to follow. And a perfect engagement present for our ‘keeper Paul Tiernan and Orla Kavanagh, who announced their intentions last night. And not forgetting wing-back/forward Ruairi Keane who got engaged to Deirdre O’Malley (sister of our wing-back extraordinaire James O’Malley) just last week. Love is truly in the air. Sounds like we can’t but have a party tonight! An Rób abu. By the way, tomorrow night the video of the game will be shown in O’Malley’s Bar, Glebe St, at 9o’c. Good to see one of our great players of recent times, Sean Burke, in Cong tonight, and also at the celebrations. Sean is now domiciled in Australia. It’d be great to see him in the club colours again. We also have Declan and Enda Reilly in Australia. I presume they are watching events closely. They generally don’t miss a trick from home. Great men – their brother Felim, playing at corner-back, represented the family well tonight, as always. A good few of The Neale crew turned up in O’Malley’s tonight. Fair play. They were bitterly disappointed but they are a team on the ‘up’, particularly if you look at their under-age record in recent years. The game was played in a very sporting manner throughout.

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