Robe Rockets News

More videos added from Ballinrobe v Claremorris U6 and U8 matches

UPDATE, May 30: More videos added to the link below (may take a few minutes to sync – when completed, there should be five videos in total). Our U6s and U8s played Claremorris in Flanagan Park, Ballinrobe, on Saturday last (May 23). Pictures and videos are available HERE A special word of thanks from the U6 and U8 coaches to all those who helped out on Saturday: taking care of teams, refereeing matches and assisting with general organisation on the day. Honourable mention too for the large group of parents and supporters who cheered on our Robe Rockets.

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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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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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