May 2015

Ballinrobe Ladies Football club reformed

By Aidrienne Gleeson, Ladies football PRO Ballinrobe Ladies Football club has been reformed after an absence of approximately a decade – and Declan O’Loughlin has been elected as chairperson. The annual general meeting to form the club took place on Tuesday night last in the TACU Centre, Ballinrobe, and was addressed by Ballinrobe GAA club chairperson Alan Flannery. The ladies club will operate as part of the overall GAA club. The following officers were elected: Chairperson Declan O’Loughlin; Vice do Nicola Macken; Secretary Mary Langan; Assistant do Noreen Jennings; Treasurer Emma Jennings; Children’s Officer  Eimear Grimes; Club Development Officer Elaine Treacy; PRO Aidrienne Gleeson. The club, which currently has over 40 girls coming to weekly training sessions, will continue to train on Saturday mornings from 9.30 to 10.30 at Flanagan Park. We welcome new members on a weekly basis. If you have girls under the age of 12 why not come out on a Saturday morning and see if theywould like playing football. There is no pressure to join the club straight away, come two or three times to see if your little one is interested and then sign up.   It is not necessary to buy football boots: just come out and play in your old runners and get the boots later.  There is no need to buy the club gear either as this is provided to players when playing a match. We do require gum shields to be worn for your own protection. This is now compulsory for everybody playing on a football pitch. Parents, if you are interested in getting involved with your children on the pitch, you could join our coaching volunteers.  Even if you have never played football before you would be paired up with an experienced coach to learn the ropes. Debut Day is currently being planned for our girls.  This will be their first match this year against another club.  Refreshments and treats will be provided that morning.  Further update will be posted in the coming weeks.

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We reach Cash for Clubs target – thank you

By John Culhane, Club Treasurer The Cash for Clubs has come to an end. Thanks to the everyone’s efforts we reached the target of 300 completed cards. Hopefully our name will be pulled out of the hat in the near future and we will win one of the cash prizes. The club would like to particularly thank Kevin Gilrane from Topaz who co-ordinated the collection of the cards and kept us on our toes over the last few months.

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Robe Rockets logo one step closer to take-off

  Yesterday was an important one in the history of Robe Rockets, the new wing of our club that caters exclusively for under ten footballers. As you know from this story HERE, Grace Bradley won the recent competition to design a logo for the Rockets. And part of her prize was to collaborate with a graphic designer to produce the final version of the logo. That collaboration between Grace and Luke from MW Design (more HERE) took place yesterday. With Grace’s guidance, and Luke’s excellent design skills, we are very happy with the logo produced – it’s lively, colourful, vibrant and young. And, most of all, it’s still a secret, and will remain so until the launch in the next few weeks, of which more anon. Here are Grace’s thoughts as the logo was being prepared, and further below are some photos. Also included are Luke, the designer; Grace’s father Michael; and Melissa and Denise from MW Design. [audio:http://ballinrobegaaclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Grace1.mp3] A special word of thanks to MW Design, who could not have been more hospitable and professional yesterday. Stand by for news of the launch soon: Grace has been given carte blanche (well, within reason) to come up with ideas for the event.     

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Cancelled due to promised bad weather – Robe Rockets scheduled for Saturday

CANCELLED – bad weather promised so we are not going to take a chance – it will be rescheduled soon.  This Saturday, May 2nd, is Boys’ Debut Day, a very special day for our club. Our U6s and U8s boys will play Claremorris at 11am in Flanagan Park. This is a family day – in the past we have had parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, almost everyone, up there to cheer the debutantes onto the pitch. The club likes to make this an important day as it will mark the first time these players will wear the maroon and yellow of Ballinrobe. We hope it will be the start of a long, enjoyable and successful relationship. This section of the club is run by the newly-formed Robe Rockets section of the club, which has been done great work over the last few months. More on Robe Rockets HERE Bring the cameras. Capture the memories. Wear club gear. And, never forget, bring gum shields (that’s just for the players, by the way). The girls will have their very own Girls’ Debut Day soon. Here’s how we have done Debut Days in the past.

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