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A typical Robe Rockets Saturday morning

  Saturday, July 4th, 2015 – so what does go on at our Robe Rockets Academy every Saturday morning?     Dave Conway, secretary of Robe Rockets, and one of its main coaches, gives this overview while he stands beside a portable goal – waiting for me to go away again so he can move the goal to where it should be.   [audio:http://ballinrobegaaclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/daire.mp3] There’s a flurry of activity as parents arrive with their children. One of the great features of Robe Rockets is parental involvement. Many parents wait and lend a hand and some have gone on to attend coaching courses and workshops. As the parents are the first educators of the children, and the biggest influence on their lives, the deep involvement of parents in their football can only be a good thing. But what do the players think? John Gleeson is a veteran – at seven years of age. Here he explains why he comes along every Wednesday and Saturday. [audio:http://ballinrobegaaclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/john-gleeson.mp3] The coaching is in full swing now. The atmosphere is supportive and positive. “Good, Rory, well done”, shouts Colm Jennings, the head buck cat at U6 level. Marie O’Haire celebrates every shot on target at the town goal. [audio:http://ballinrobegaaclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/fizzy.mp3] But where have all the girls gone? They’re not here in their usual numbers this morning. Declan O’Louglin gives the reason why they’re strangely absent. [audio:http://ballinrobegaaclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/declan.mp3]   And an hour later, it’s over. All to be repeated next Wednesday and next Saturday, over and over again, fun times for children and adults, memories being created, friendships being formed, skills being developed, a culture built hour by hour, a relationship with the club and the game that will hopefully go deeper and deeper in the weeks, months and years ahead. Go Rockets.  Out-take: not sure how I created this photo, but, fair is fair, it’s right cool…  

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Final Score Ballinrobe 1-8, @aughamore 1-15

Update, Sunday, June 28: The full video of coverage is now available HERE 33m Free for James Quinn 31m Super 50 from Freeman 28m Kenny O`Malley scores a 50m free 27m Free for Freeman. 24m Boland scores again. 23m Another for Augh, Fergal Boland point. 21m Point for Augh, Conor Lyons 20m James Murphy point, sweeter left foot 20m David O`Connor point for the Robe, sweet left foot 19m Black card for Tom Forde 11m Point for Robe, James Quine point. 10m Goal from Alan Freeman, Aughamore taking charge 9m Cathal Freeman, lovely score off the right. 3m Connor Lyons for Aughmore, lovely run and finish 33m Another free from Freeman after gaining 10 yards for dissent. 32m Alan Freeman free 28m Fergal Bolan for Aughamore 27 David Killeens get a great score. 3 mins of normal time left 26m Aughmore respond with point 25m – A rocket from Peter Walsh, his 2nd goal in his second championship game. 17m Left peg from Joe Burke of B Robe 16m Point for Robe – Shane Biggins 14 Point for Augh – Darren Duffy 11m Point for Augh – Kenny Feeney 9m Point for Robe – Donie Vaughan from 50 yards 8m Point for Augh – Alan Freeman 6m Point for Augh – Ciaran Harrison 4m Ronan Macken off with injury. Changes to Ballinrobe team…Sean Burke out (injured), Daire Conway in. Peter Staunton here at the control centre this evening. Big shout out to the world! Windy and slightly misty here at Flanagan Park. Throw in 10 mins. Ballinrobe: Kenny O’Malley; Shane Biggins; Eugene O`Malley; David O`Connor; Phelim Reilly; David Killeen, Darren McDonnell; Donal Vaughan; James Murphy; Joe Burke; James Quinn; Kevin Quinn; Sean Burke; Ronan Macken; Peter Walsh. Aghamore: Niall Walsh; Ciaran Harrison; David Kenny; Jamie Tighee; Fergal Boland; Tom Forde; Kenny Feeney; Alan Freeman; Paddy Finnegan; Robert Lyons; Cathal Freeman; Paddy Finnegan; Robert Lyons; Cathal Freeman; Com Caulfield; Darren Duffy; Conor Lyons.   Score updates from Mayo SFC v Aghamore, Saturday, June 27th, at 5.30pm, will be available here. Refresh the page every few minutes). The page heading will change with every update. Virtually every Tweet that goes out from @ballinrobegaa during the game will link to this page, so make sure to click through to here. Plus, of course, you can actually watch the game live. More details HERE

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Invitation to Ballinrobe ladies football debut day

Ballinrobe’s reformed Ladies Football club, together with the rest of the club’s Robe Rockets, are having a Debut Day and want to send you a special invite to celebrate this exciting day. The venue is Flanagan Park, Ballinrobe, on Saturday, June 13th.  Match times are available HERE. We are inviting brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, grandparents and friends to come along to support our young footballers on the day. We have a special invitation for all players who played for the last U16 Ballinrobe ladies football team, 2004/2005.   We would like you to dig out old photos and give them to Mary Langan, Secretary, (087) 234 7438 or send in by email to maryinmayo@yahoo.com.  Any photos sent in will be returned. We ask that you turn up on the day to meet our new players, give them advice tell them stories of your experience of being part of the ladies football team. Help us celebrate the day which is being held to encourage our new players. Refreshments and treats, including teas and coffee, will be available on this fun Debut Day.

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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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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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Weekly calendar

The following is this week’s calendar for Flanagan Park. Monday, April 4 to Sunday, April 10, 2016: MONDAY: 6-7pm, U12 training; 7.30-8.30pm U16 training. TUESDAY: 6-7pm, U12 training; 7.30-8.30pm U16 training. WEDNESDAY: 6-7pm, U12 training; 7.30-8.30pm U16 training. THURSDAY: 6-7pm, U12 training; 7.30-8.30pm U16 training. FRIDAY: 6-7pm, U12 training; 7.30-8.30pm U16 training. SATURDAY: 6-7pm, U12 training; 7.30-8.30pm U16 training. SUNDAY: 3.30pm, senior match v Ballintubber.   Overall responsibility for bookings: ????

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2014 Bord na nOg Managers

U-18 Declan Corcoran, 087 6441362; Pat Kennedy; U-16 Fergal O’Malley, 087 670 1063; Padraig Horan; U-14 Tom Carney,  086 3216992; John G Burke; U-12 Kevin Gilrane, 087 284 8324; Alan Flannery; Michael Jennings; Billy Burke; U-10 John Gilrane 087 699 6135; John Sweeney; Martin O’Connor; U-8 Des May 087 689 9444; Padraig Delaney; Declan O’Connor; U-6 Colm Jennings 087 991 3684, Trevor Watson, Barry Langan, Tomas Grimes, Terence Duddy.

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