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Lenovo skills camp

From Mayo County Board: Cillian O’Connor and Fiona McHale are leading out on a skills camp for boys and girls age 13 to 16, which will be held in McHale Park from Tuesday June 23rd to Friday June 26th inclusive from 10am to 2pm each day. Young players from that age group are encouraged to attend and improve their skills. Players must register on-line. For further details log on to gaa.ie/lenovoskillshub Please advise team managers and players from your club on this.

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Invite to all to support first match for reformed ladies football club

By Aidrienne Gleeson, PRO Exciting times for our Ladies Football club in Ballinrobe as they face their first match ever. U10/U12 Ballinrobe ladies will play the Neale this Saturday 30th May in Flanagan Park, Ballinrobe at 11 o’clock. We invite you all, young and old, to come out and support our ladies in their home ground. You may have a little one who is interested in football, bring them out to see the game to support their friends.  They may even want to join us in the future. Our ladies train Saturday mornings from 9:30 to 10:30.    Wednesday evening trainings are soon to begin, date to be confirmed.

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Ladies footballers go through their paces #joinuseachSaturday

Our ladies footballers had their usual Saturday morning training this morning at 9.30. Go HERE to see some pix and videos. These are high-res pix if families wish to download and print. Pix being added here throughout today, so might be no harm to come back again. Girls, if you’re interested in football, come along and join us each Saturday morning. Plenty of detail here on the website – go to the Ladies Football link in the menu above or on the right-hand side of the home page.

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Coach Education Workshop 27th May 2015

Coach Education Workshop 27th May 2015 Venue – TACU, Main Street, Ballinrobe 8.00pm – Sign In 8.15pm – Introduction   8.25pm – Ballinrobe GAA Coaching Journal Presented by Martin O’Connor   8.45pm – Code of Conduct for Coaches Presented by Gerry O’Malley   9.05pm – How to Plan and Execute a Great Training Session Presented by Norman O’Brien   9.25pm – Incident Reporting Procedure Presented by Martin O’Connor   9.45pm – Finish

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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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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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Cash for Clubs – last push on to get us over the line – can you help?

Cash for Clubs (more HERE)is an initiative that does exactly what it says on the tin: it gives cash to clubs like ours. We need 300 cards to be guaranteed €250 – and that will also get us entered into the big draw where there is €10,000 worth of prizes. We currently have about 210 cards. The closing date is May 10th. One last push gets us over the line so all support would be welcome. Cards can be given to John Culhane or Kevin Gilrane. If you have a card on the dashboard of the car, or in your wallet, please get it to John or Kevin asap. Or if you can get registered in the next few days, please do. All the details you need are HERE (same link as above).

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