March 2014

Congratulations to Ballinrobe Town AFC who last night won the €1500 prize for being the best team in the highly-successful Mission: Slimpossible! They pipped Ballinrobe RFC in a tight finish. We finished third – but everyone was a winner last night as all three clubs recorded outstanding weight losses. John Walsh, Ballinrobe RFC, was named as King of Mission: Slimpossible! Our very own Tom Carney was in the final three for that accolade, along with Tony Walsh (Ballinrobe Town AFC). Another one of our very own – Martina McCormack – was named as Queen of Mission: Slimpossible! The two other finalists in that were Helen O’Neill and Valerie Gibbons (both Ballinrobe Town AFC). Thanks very much to Paula O’Hara and Tina McCormack from Motivation Weight Management for their support throughout the event. Thanks also to Lake District Sports & Fitness Centre who hosted many of the training events, and to Quality Street for entertaining the huge crowd last night. Plans are afoot to retain some of the training events each week. More details anon. You can listen to Audioboos from last night HERE Visit Motivation Weight Management site HERE More anon.

Here are links to Audioboos from last night’s Mission: Slimpossible! REPORT 5, the McCormack Hour REPORT 4, More Vinny Cummins, John Culhane, Paddy McTigue, Linda Stafford, Hilary Flannery, Damien O’Kelly REPORT 3, interview with Keith McTigue REPORT 2, build-up REPORT 1, build-up   Motivation Weight Management website HERE

UPDATE, Sunday, March 9: Listen to the interview below. [audio:http://ballinrobegaaclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/slimpossible_09_03_14.mp3] Mission: Slimpossible! will feature on Mid West Radio this Sunday. At about 4pm, Peter McHugh (Mayor of Ballinrobe) and Ronan O’Dea (Chairman, Ballinrobe Town AFC) will be guests of Angelina McHugh’s on the sports show. Both men are participating in Mission: Slimpossible! which comes to a climax on Friday night next, March 14th, in the Valkenburg (for which tickets are selling extremely fast, by the way). To all our participants, we say ‘have a good and restrained weekend’ – we need every point we can get at Tuesday night’s final weigh-in. Motivation Weight Management website HERE