Mission: Slimpossible!

UPDATE, FRIDAY, MARCH 28: The winner, Jason Coyne, has kindly offered to donate €100 of his prize money to the Friends of Grace charity. A lovely gesture, well done, Jason. THURSDAY, MARCH 27: Jason Coyne, Cloughbrack, Clonbur, Co. Galway, was the winner of the €300 cash prize for correctly predicting the 1-2-3 in the recent Mission: Slimpossible! competition. The 1-2-3 was Ballinrobe Town AFC, Ballinrobe RFC and Ballinrobe GAA. The draw was made at tonight’s final meeting of the Steering Committee. The man who pulled the ticket was publican Martin Costello, who hosted the meetings of the Steering Committee over the last few months. The winning ticket was sold by Michael O’Connor, Cahernagolum, The Neale, a member of the victorious Ballinrobe Town AFC team in Mission: Slimpossible! A word of thanks to all who supported the event and the associated charity Friends of Grace. Thanks to Motivation Weight Management for sponsoring the event: www.motivation.ie, and Lakeside Sports & Fitness centre. Expect another club showdown in the foreseeable future.

Before & After pix from Mission: Slimpossible! are now available. See them HERE And they’re also on Facebook HERE Plus see you tomorrow night (Friday) at the final night in aid of the Friends of Grace charity in the Valkenburg. Visit Motivation Weight Management website HERE

Online, there are now a number of ways you can support our team in Mission: Slimpossible! You can support individuals HERE Or you can make a general donation to the club HERE Motivation Weight Management website is HERE

  A number of our Slimpossibles are now raising funds for the club online: you can support them here: Elaine O’Brien Keith McTigue Brian Golden Alan Flannery John Culhane Linda Stafford Vincent Cummins Tom Carney Liam Horan As more people add their pages on iFundraise site, we will list them here. You can also make a general donation to the club if you can’t decide which one of the above you want to support individually. This should be handy for ensuring that civil war doesn’t break out in families, and so on. We’re all for peace. General donation HERE Visit Motivation Weight Management website HERE

The Valkenburg has been confirmed for the final night of Mission: Slimpossible! on Friday, March 14th.  Mission: Slimpossible! is the weight loss competition between Ballinrobe RFC, Ballinrobe Town AFC and Ballinrobe GAA club. A total of 60 people – 20 from each club – have been taking part in the novel campaign since early January. The event will start at 9pm. Music by Quality Street followed by disco. With a huge crowd anticipated, a closed circuit tv system will beam pictures to the upstairs area of the Valkenburg. All proceeds from that night will go to the Friends of Grace Charity. On the night, the following will be announced: Winning club (this will remain a secret until the final night). King of Mission: Slimpossible! Queen of Mission: Slimpossible! (both of these prizes are awarded on the basis of who lost the most body fat percentage). ‘After’ and winning pictures will be taken by photographer Elizabeth Toher, and the key ones will be available for circulation to the media. On the night, each team is assembling in a local public house before going to the Valk. The GAA team will meet in O’Malley’s Bar at 8pm. Participants, friends, club members and families are invited to join the group in O’Malley’s. To learn more about how Mission: Slimpossible! operates, please visit HERE. Every person got a target appropriate to their weight in January. Pictures from the event are available HERE. Motivation Weight Management website HERE