Senior team

By Billy Horan, Club PRO The draw for the O’Mara Cup groupings was made at a meeting of the South Mayo GAA board in Hollymount last week and is as follows: Group 1: Hollymount-Carramore (holders), Kilmaine, The Neale, Mayo Gaels; Group 2: Ballinrobe, Claremorris, Davitts, Garrymore, Shrule-Glencorrib. [Catgegory News, Slider, Senior Team]

By Billy Horan, Club PRO Castlebar Mitchels, the holders, Ballina Stephenites and Crossmolina will be Ballinrobe’s formidable opponents in Group 3 of this year’s Mayo senior football championship. Visiting Ballina will provide the opposition in the first round.

David Waldron, a native of Milltown who teaches in Claregalway, is the new manager of the Ballinrobe senior football team. He was ratified at last night’s meeting of the club’s Executive Committee. Details of his backroom team will be finalised shortly. He is wished every success in the role. Ballinrobe have been drawn in the same group as Castlebar Mitchels, Ballina Stephenites and Crossmolina in the Mayo SFC. The players have been training over recent under weeks under the guidance of player Conor Keane, who is a qualified fitness specialist and the owner of a popular gym in the Ballinrobe area, and David’s involvement will commence this coming weekend.

Note: game has been changed to 11.30am. Tune in HERE (archive will be there too afterwards – go to Tracks, where you will also be able to listen to previous games we have broadcast). Note date change below + note that Tom Carney is stepping into the commentary hot seat for the first time due to the unavoidable absence of Liam Horan. P Cos will be there to keep a close eye on Tom and to keep him in the luxury to which Liam Horan has become accustomed. Our final Mayo SFL Division 1B league game is against Burrishoole on Sunday, November 1, at 11.30am, at Flanagan Park, Ballinrobe. This will be our final game of the season as we continue our battle to avoid relegation. We are appealing to all our supporters to come along and cheer on the team. We had a good win against Shrule-Glencorrib on Saturday night. If you can’t make it, we will be streaming this game live, led by Tom Carney (commentator), Padraig Costello Snr (Ballinrobe analyst) and hopefully a Burrishoole analyst. Coverage starts at 11.20am. Tune in HERE (archive will be there too afterwards – go to Tracks, where you will also be able to listen to previous games we have broadcast). Keep your wits about you because it may be necessary to create a new link under Tracks. This is because we are still trialling the free account which has some time limitations. Tweet @ballinrobegaa or pop a message herehttps://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 this.    

Update: Great win for us today – final score 5-6 to 2-4. We trialled a new technology, Spreaker, to provide live commentary. We didn’t publicise it beforehand for fear it wouldn’t work: but the word spread and we reached 39 listeners. Best of all, the technology worked. You can listen back HERE – it’s broken into a few different files:   Let’s try this: live commentary, starting at 12noon, go here – hopefully broadband will hold up: http://www.spreaker.com/user/ballinrobegaa – spread the word. We will be providing updates here from 12noon onwards. We play Shrule-Glencorrib in the Mayo senior football champion relegation play-off, in Hollymount, on Sunday at 12 noon. This is a winner-takes-all encounter: if we win, we play senior championship in 2016; if we lose, we play intermediate championship next year. All support appreciated. Referee Michael Daly, Ballyhaunis.