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Gaelic4Girls Hits Ballinrobe by Storm

    Gaelic4Girls Hits Ballinrobe by Storm!   Gaelic4Girls has hit Ballinrobe by storm, with 40 girls from Ballinrobe and the surrounding areas descending onto Flanagan Park, Ballinrobe to be treated to 60mins of great fun and coaching in Ladies Gaelic Football last Friday evening. This programme continues for another 7 weeks every Friday from 18:30 in Flanagan Park, Ballinrobe. It is fantastic to see so many enthusiastic girls, who have little Gaelic Football experience enjoying themselves.   It is open to girls aged 8-12yrs ( inclusive by 25th July 2016) who are not part of a Ladies Gaelic Football Club and who are interested in learning the skills of the game. All girls from Ballinrobe and the surrounding areas are encouraged to attend and learn the skills of Ladies Gaelic Football from enthusiastic coaches. You are all welcome to attend even if you missed week one. The girls will be taught the basic skills of Gaelic football on a fun basis and will get to demonstrate their new skills at a fun mini-blitz. All girls will be presented with a Gaelic4Girls t-shirt and certificate. A major bonus from the programme is that all participants will get the chance to participate in a Mini Blitz with another Gaelic4Girls site after the county blitz. The cost for the entire programme is only €8. Anybody who would like more details on this programme is asked to contact Aidrienne Gleeson on (086) 126 0136. Reminder to all girls attending, wear enough layers, under armour if you have them, it’s easy to peel of the layers, but if weather continues like last Friday would be good idea even to have a hat on your head to keep the bitter cold out.  Everybody to bring a bottle of water and wear the mandatory gum shields. Reminder to all parents and Guardians please sign in your daughters on the registration sheet each evening on arrival and girls have to be collected from the pitch and will not be allowed leave on their own not even to walk down the length of the car park, you need to come back to the registration point to collect the girls each evening for security purposes. Photos to follow.  

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Good wishes to Garrett family and Breaffy GAA at this dreadful time

Note below is from Breaffy GAA club – all of us in Ballinrobe send good wishes to the Garrett family and the Breaffy club at this dreadful time: Breaffy GAA are hosting a community mass and get together this Sunday evening at 7pm in the clubhouse in aid of the Garrett family. Ben is a former member of Breaffy GAA. All support and donations to support the search effort would be greatly appreciated. We would also appreciate if you could circulate this to all the co secretaries and if possible post on the Mayo facebook page/ share the Breaffy GAA status. Kind regards, Nuala Bourke

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Robe Rockets Church gate collection

By Annette Conway, PRO Robe Rockets Robe Rockets wish to sincerely thank all those who gave so generously to our recent Church gate collection at Easter. Over €952 was raised and this will help towards the cost of equipment and running costs for our underage teams this year. A special word of thanks to all those who helped out with the collection over the weekend, it is appreciated.

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Ballinrobe Racecourses’ First Race Meeting of the year

Dear Club Member, As some of you will be aware, Ballinrobe Races have become our new Senior Team Sponsors in the past number of weeks. We attended the Racecourses’ official 2016 launch and at that, Our Club showcased the new Jerseys for the year; more on that evening can be found here; http://ballinrobegaaclub.com/historic-sponsorship-deal-announced-with-ballinrobe-races/ Along with this, the club wish to pass on our best wishes to the Ballinrobe Racecourse committee in anticipation of their first meeting of the year on Friday evening next, the 15th April. It is being called ‘Friday Fever’ and starts of the first of 10 meetings for the 2016 calendar in Ballinrobe. The racecourse have a number of special offers for the evening more details on this can be found here; http://ballinroberacecourse.ie/friday-fever-15th-april-2016/ We would ask all club members to make an effort to support this local entity, we are very lucky to have such a facility within our parish, and Manager John Flannelly along with his hardworking staff and committee have endeavoured over the years to ensure the racecourse is amongst the best in the country. We wish them all the best for Friday evening and the year ahead. Mise le meas, Donall Mac Cormaic, Runai

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U8 First outdoor session of 2016

By Annette Conway, PRO Robe Rockets It was great to see so many of our U8’s boys and girls who braved the first outdoor session of the season this morning. We weren’t sure if we would have snow, wind or rain but thankfully the sun shone for the hour. Over the last 6 weeks the Coaches and children have been indoors in the Lakeside on Saturday and this was the first opportunity for some of the children to play in Flanagan Park. The children benefited from having a full training session and all were delighted to play a match on the pitch! Thanks again to all parents who cooperated with the drop off and collection of children to the area outside the dressing rooms and Coaches for their weekly commitment to training. U8 boys and girls training will continue to be outside on the football pitch at 9.30am to 10.30am on Saturday mornings.  A special thanks to John F and Staff of the Lakeside Sports and Fitness Centre who hosted our U8 indoor training sessions, we are lucky to have this facility locally.   

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Match commentary now archived here: Ballinrobe 1-9 @Ballagh_GAA 3-13 @mayogaa SFL

  The match commentary is now archived HERE By Liam Horan, Webmaster The wheel is starting to turn again – as Josh Ritter says, part metaphorically, “it’s been a long time a coming, but now the snow is gone.” You can even listen to that song HERE. Anyway. We play Ballaghaderreen in Division 1B of the Mayo SFL this Saturday, April 9, in Flangan Park, Ballinrobe, at 6pm – and you can listen to every minute of the action here on our website. Access the game HERE – we will go live about 15 minutes beforehand. The commentary will be there in full afterwards too. FLASHBACK: Commentary team v Kiltimagh, in SFL, 2015: (l to r): Seamus Corry, Liam Horan, Padraig Costello Snr. Pic Brendan Mooney, Kiltimagh GAA. Keep your wits about you because it may be necessary to create a new link under Tracks. Tweet @ballinrobegaa or pop a message here https://www.facebook.com/BallinrobeGAAFanPage with details of where you plan to listen to the game. And keep in touch during the game too, audience interaction is a big part of our live commentaries. Paul Tiernan, Kenneth O’Malley, Maurice Horan, Sean Maloney, Joe Lyons, Damien Lyons, Sean Lyons, every Lyons you can think of, Lyonses not yet even born – we know you will be tuned in so give us the beck. Commentary team: Liam Horan, Padraic Costello Snr (99 per cent certain – he’ll firm up any second I reckon), and hopefully a Ballaghaderreen voice. Previous audio reports and commentaries available HERE  

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