2015

Dear Club Members We have just received correspondence from Mayo GAA that they are to fullfill 100% of club orders. These are to be processed by tomorrow and it is hoped that we will distribute the allocation tomorrow night at 9.30pm. Please ensure that, if you are receiving tickets, that you are there on time and have payment for all tickets sought. It should be noted that a certain percentage of the allocation is going to be terrace tickets, although this is to be less than last week and that we will have to incorporate these terrace tickets into the distribution also. Donal McCormack, Runai, Ballinrobe GAA Club.

Dear Club Member. The All Ireland Football Semi Final Replay between Dublin and Mayo will take place on Saturday September the 05th at 5.00pm Please note the club will be submitting an order for a ticket allocation to the county board tomorrow night. In order to facilitate club members, please send an email to secretary.ballinrobe.mayo indicating your ticket requirement. (Stand/Terrace/Juvenile) This email must be received by the Club before 6.00pm tomorrow evening (01st September). Any requests after this time cannot be guaranteed a ticket. Please note that we have no indication what allocation will be made available but we would like to have all interested parties included in our request by Tomorrow evening. Please note that club officers have work commitments , in this regard phone calls to club officers should only be made regarding this after 6.00pm in the evening. Texts messages will also be Ok to submit for your order.

Wed, 02 Sep, Venue: Ballinrobe, (Round: Round 3), Ballinrobe V Garrymore 18:30, Ref: Kevin Connelly

The recent Church Gate collection in aid of the Disabled Drivers Association realised a total of €519.84. The collection was taken up for the Association by members of Ballinrobe GAA club, and a word of thanks is extended to all who helped out. The Disabled Drivers Association have written to the Ballinrobe club to express their appreciation.

Our Mayo U21 C football championship game against Tourmakeady, scheduled for Tourmakeady tomorrow evening (Wednesday), has been postponed as a mark of respect to the late Darragh Doherty, Kilmaine. Darragh, a member of the Mayo team that won the 2013 All-Ireland minor title, was a close friend of a number of our players. Funeral ceremonies take place in Kilmaine over the next two days, as outlined HERE The U21 refixture will be announced in the coming days.

Ballinrobe GAA Club extends its deepest sympathies to the family of Darragh Doherty, Ballyhenry, Kilmaine, the former All-Ireland winning minor footballer, who was tragically killed in a car accident between Kilmaine and Ballinrobe last night (Sunday). Darragh (19) was among the attendance at Saturday evening’s South Mayo Junior B final between his club Kilmaine and Shrule-Glencorrib in Flanagan Park, Ballinrobe. He was his usual jovial and friendly self as he mingled with spectators from both clubs and our own members. The Doherty family are hugely respected in GAA circles throughout Mayo and further afield. Darragh was a past-pupil of Ballinrobe Community School and was one of the star attackers in the Mayo team which won the 2013 All-Ireland minor football title. All of us who knew him were intensely proud of his performances, particularly in Croke Park, where his true footballing talents shone through. His death casts a deep shadow over this region. In extending our sympathy to the Doherty family, we also remember his colleagues in Kilmaine GAA Club. We are conscious that no words of ours can soften the sense of despair that hangs over Kilmaine tonight. Darragh was their hero, the man who gave them reason to walk tall out of Croke Park just two short years ago, just like another great Kilmaine minor scoring star, Michael John Mullin, did 28 years previously. The Kilmaine club statement is contained HERE. May he rest in peace.