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Bord na nÓg Officers 2014

2014 Chairman John Sweeney (087) 251 6744 2014 Secretary Tom Carney (086) 321 6992 2014 Treasurer Fergal O’Malley (087) 670 1063   2013 Chairman John Sweeney (087) 251 6744 2013 Secretary Tom Carney (086) 321 6992 2013 Treasurer Fergal O’Malley (087) 670 1063

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Mayo SFC draw

From Mayo GAA board: Please note that this years 2014 Senior, Intermediate & Junior Club Championship Draws will take place next Monday night 27th January following the County Board Meeting at approximately 9.30p.m.

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Scales tell tales!

Scales tell tales! Our second weigh-in takes place tonight (Tuesday) in Lakeside Sport & Fitness club at 7o’c. This is our first weigh-in since we got our food plans last week. Well done to all who have been attending the training sessions over the past week – the group work is proving very beneficial. Thanks also to Brian Golden, Keith McTigue and Tom Carney who have been leading the groups. Check out the group training times here – tonight, after the weigh-in, we take to the streets of the town (and maybe a little of the Bowers too) for walk, jog, run, whatever takes your fancy. By the way, Monday morning is the time to contact Lakeside if you wish to join any of their classes during the coming week. €5 per class: just tell them you’re a member of the GAA Slimpossible! slim & support team. Visit Motivation Weight Management website HERE

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General Club Meeting 23rd January

Dear Club Member, Please note that we are having a General Club Meeting in the Meeting Room on the first floor of O’Malley’s Meeting Room, Glebe Street, at 9.00pm on Thursday night next, 23rd January. All club members are invited to attend, and also to encourage others that would like to become new members of the Club. We would like to see a good turn out for the first General Meeting of the year, so please try your best to be there on the night. Donal McCormack, Runai 087 6611137

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Grace’s story – our Mission: Slimpossible! partner charity

Grace O’Malley will benefit from the final night of Mission: Slimpossible! on Friday, March 14.Here’s her story. Grace’s story Hi my name is Grace O’Malley. I am a 4 year old girl from Robeen, Hollymount. When I was 18 months old, I wasn’t walking yet, so I started having some tests done. More tests were carried out in Dublin over the coming months and I was diagnosed with a condition called Spinal Muscular Atrophy type II when I was 22 months old. We had never heard of SMA before. (Besides being the name of a baby milk formula or the old religious magazine which my mum used to sell when she was younger!). So I hope I will make everyone aware of what SMA actually means to me. SMA is a genetic condition and is the number one genetic killer of children under the age of 2. One in 40 people are carriers of of the gene that causes SMA. It is a life threatening motor neuron disease which affects all of my voluntary muscles that are used for activities such as walking, neck control, breathing and coughing. This leads to a highly increased risk of infection of pneumonia and other respiratory infections. So to help me get over what would be a simple cough for another person, I need a lot of ventilation machine work to help me. I have to do my nebulisers on average twice a day, my bipap machine which blows air into my lungs which is basically like physiotherapy for my lungs and finally my cough assist machine which does exactly what it says on the tin… helps me cough. My mum or dad always bring me to my ‘holiday home’ Mayo General Hospital where I get first class treatment now because they know me so well. I always have to get chest x-rays done as my condition is so silent when I have a chest infection. I scream the place down for the first hour while I’m there but then I settle in. My Consultant Dr. Fox even calls me his Grandaughter now he gets to see me so much… as for my mother he always laughs and asks what ‘her diagnosis’ is as she feels she will be a Doctor in her next life One benefit out of all of it though is my brain is better than perfect. I just love going to playschool and playing with my friends. When I was aged 3, I was lucky enough to get my new super-wheels, my powered wheelchair! Now I can really get around, in certain adapted areas. This benefits my independence greatly. As for other basic needs like turning over in my bed at night, toileting, showering, dressing, picking things up that fall and trying to sit up from a lying position my mum, dad, family and friends even my 3 year old brother steps up to the mark… when I shout loud enough! Now my mum and dad say I am the luckiest girl around as I don’t get tired walking around and every little and big person want a wheelchair like mine. I am starting big school in September and I’ll be the fastest kid in the school yard so I’m looking forward to that. I have to do regular physiotherapy which I cannot say I love and I give mum and dad a hard time over doing it sometimes, I have to go into my standing frame every day for at least 1/2 hour and dad plays games with me while I’m in it. I have to try to keep my upper body strength increased with reaching exercises and I also wear splints on a daily basis on my feet. I have 6 monthly check up’s in Dublin to keep an eye on my spine and obvioulsy to check if I have deteriroated and I also get checked in Galway Hospital for my respiratory needs on a 6 month basis. I would like to thank you all so so much from my heart for helping me to further increase my independence with equipment required like a ceiling hoist for my new bedroom. I just got a new bedroom downstairs in our house, so now mum or dad don’t have to carry me up the stairs all the time. The ceiling hoist will further help with lifting and transfering me as I am getting heavier for mum and dad to carry so I’ll have a clear run/spin from my bedroom into my bathroom and also to transfer me into my wheelchair from my bed or toilet. In time, I will also need a changing bench, but as mam says one step at a time. I do not look too far ahead but I am grateful for all I have. But once again thank you so much with the help towards that first step. Best of luck to all of you taking part. Grace. x   Visit Motivation Weight Management website HERE

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South Mayo referee bereaved

See below from Mayo GAA board – we would like to join with them in sympathising with Eamon and his family. Eamon is a familiar face on the GAA fields of south Mayo. May his father rest in peace. Everyone at Coiste Chontae Mhaigheo would like to express their sincere sympahies to the family, friends, and neighbours of the late Paddy McAndrew aged 96 years of age (Father of Mayo G.A.A. Referee Eamon McAndrew) who passed away this week. Paddy McAndrew Doovelia, Knockshambo, Belmullet – peacefully in his 96th year. Remains reposing at the family home from 5 o’clock this Thursday evening until 10 o’clock on Friday night. Remains will arrive to the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Shanaghy on Saturday afternoon for Funeral Mass at 1 o’clock. Burial afterwards in Tarmoncarra Cemetery. Family flowers only please. Donations if desired to the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Palliative Care Team, c/o McDonnell Funeral Directors, Belmullet. Aiden McLoughlin PRO Mayo G.A.A.

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Mission: Slimpossible!

Great turnout tonight. 18 of our 20. Some long faces when Motivation Weight Management revealed target weights and food plans! Great training session afterwards led by Brian Golden and Keith McTigue. We train again Thursday and Friday nights. Both 8.30, meet at Lakeside Sports and Leisure Centre. Friday night is indoors – circuits. Sunday morning, 10 in the Green.

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Listen here to Mission: Slimpossible! feature on Mid West Radio

SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2014 – update – here’s the radio interview referenced below. Thanks to Angelina and Michael D from Mid- West Radio for running this interview, and thanks, as always, to Motivation Weight Management, who are making Mission: Slimpossible! possible. [audio:http://ballinrobegaaclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/slimpossible_mwr_01_12_14.mp3] SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 2014: Tomorrow afternoon, Sunday, representatives from the three clubs involved in Mission: Slimpossible! will appear on Mid West Radio. The interview will be broadcast live shortly after 4pm. You will send plenty on our site here about Mission: Slimpossible!, in association with Motivation Weight Management. We will record the interview and add it at the top of this page tomorrow. Visit Motivation Weight Management website HERE

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