Club treasurer John Culhane prepared a ‘movie’ for our Coaching Plan launch on Friday night last – well, not quite a movie, but a collection of stills photos set to music. You can watch it HERE – you might even see yourself in it.
‘Movie’ from coaching plan launch Read More »
High resolution copies of the launch pix are available HERE if you wish to download and print off.
More pix from our Coaching Plan launch Read More »
I think it is fair to say that anyone who attended our club Coaching Plan launch last night found Fergal Costello’s speech to be quite powerful. Not alone did Fergal summarise what he feels are pre-requisites for a club to be successful, but he also laid down some further challenges for our club. The fact that he had dissected our plan in great detail over the past week lent extra weight and credibility to his words. Anyone who knows Fergal knows he is an analytical and shrewd individual – and a man who led his club and county splendidly – and he certainly honoured the work of our coaching committee by assessing their work seriously. His full speech is HERE Actually, strictly speaking it’s not the full speech, the first 30 seconds or so are missing. Sound quality isn’t hectic either in places, so apologies for that. You don’t need a Dropbox account to open it – just hit download on the top right hand side and it will download to your hard disk, and you can play it from there. The full plan is available HERE More on the launch and the plan HERE Pictures from the launch anon.
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Ballinrobe GAA club is now compiling a coaching plan for the next five years – and if you have any ideas, you can submit them to the committee. A steering committee and four sub-committees are now working on the plan. If you have a submission, email it to secretary.ballinrobe.mayo, and it will be passed onto the relevant sub-committee. Please include the rationale behind your submission. Closing date for submissions is October 31st, 2014.
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Our U12 skills team took part in the Connacht Skills Finals in the Connacht Centre of Excellence, Bekan, last night (Friday). They qualified as south Mayo champions, an achievement of which the club is rightly proud. They didn’t get into the prizes last night but performed extremely well. The team members were Darragh Sweeney, Adam Flannery, Conor O’Brien and Conor Cusack. Well done to all four, and to their coaches who continue to prioritise skill development among our young players.
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UPDATE, Sunday evening, September 28: We have more video footage that I had anticipated – the U8 certificate presentation ceremony is there too after all. I thought I had lost it, or not shot it properly in the first place, but it has been retrieved. Alas, some upside down selfies cast the video man into further controversy. Se below for link. Some items still syncing, so best to check later tonight or in the morning again. We had a memorable hour or so in Flanagan Park yesterday morning (Saturday, September 28th, 2014) when we held our Girls Football Celebration Day. Brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, aunts, uncles, grandfathers and grandmothers turned out to see our young female footballers showcase their skills. Hard-working parents also put together a fantastic spread of food and refreshments for young and old. The Saturday morning training is now over for the girls for this year, but we will be back – bigger and better – next year. The improvement in skills levels shown by the girls throughout this year is quite astounding, and we look forward to promoting further improvements in the years ahead. Most of all, we aim to ensure they derive enjoyment from their involvement in football because, human nature being what it is, if it’s not fun, they will drift away. Each girl received a Certificate of Excellence (replete with some skills drills to work on over the winter months). Great credit is due to the hard-working team who have revived girls football in the club this year. Pictures from yesterday are available HERE. Pix will be syncing there throughout today (Sunday) so might be an idea to check in later too (it could be evening time in fact before all are up there). The video man apologises for not capturing the presentations to the younger girls. It’s what you get when you put amateurs on the job… These are the highest resolution we have available, so feel free to download from there if you wish to print. Anyone else who has photos for inclusion should email them to liamhoran09@gmail.com.
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Conor Cusack, Conor O’Brien, Darragh Sweeney, and Adam Flannery – these four players last night (Friday) won the South Mayo U12 Skills Challenge for the club. It was held at the Connacht Centre of Excellence in Bekan. Well done too to coaches Kevin Gilrane, Michael Jennings, Adrian Flannery and Alan Flannery. To select this team, the club held local trials, where the standard was exceptionally high. We are on the right road. Connacht final takes place in a fortnight.
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Our girls footballers had a challenge outing against Hollymount yesterday (Saturday). It was another exciting day for the young players whose skills are improving all the time. Thanks to Mary Langan for this photo.
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From Declan O’Loughlin: Hi All, Firstly thanks to everyone who helped last week – we had 29 girls at training our best turn out yet. Training for U-8 will be at 9:30 this Saturday morning. We will have a “joint-training” session with Hollymount in Hollymount at 11am for our U-10s and U-12s.
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Ballinrobe GAA club join with Mayo GAA board in extending sympathy to the family of the late Jonathan Burke. The club will be represented at his funeral ceremonies. May he rest in peace. Mayo G.A.A. & Hollymount/Carramore G.A.A. Club would like to extend their deepest sympathies to the family and friends of Johnny & Ann Burke, Cloonaugh, Taugheen on the tragic death of their son Jonathan over the weekend. Jonathan was a very well respected referee on the Mayo G.A.A. Club scene and will be sorely missed by all. Funeral arrangements are as follows: Reposing at Gilligan’s Funeral Home, Market Square, Claremorris this Monday evening 8th September from 6.00p.m. with removal at 8.00p.m. to St. Michael’s Church, Taugheen. Funeral Mass on Tuesday morning 9th September at 11.00a.m. with burial afterwards in Taugheen new Cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations if desired to Pieta House c/o Gilligan Funeral Directors, Claremorris. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
The late Jonathan Burke Read More »
