Declan O'Loughlin

Operation Transformation and Healthy Club 2019

  January 2019 will see Ballinrobe GAA in the second year of our healthy club project. As part of this project we aim to get us all a little more active in 2019.  In conjunction with @Ballinrobesportshub this program will start on the Saturday 12th January @11am with a walk in “the green”.  We will be holding two walks per week after that for five weeks. Walking is a fantastic way to keep active and maintain a healthy heart as it is fun, flexible and free. We had a great turnout last year and these walks are not limited to club members so please spread the word, the more the merrier!  

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U12 Boys Blitz

  The club held a very successful U12 blitz at the agricultural show on Sunday, 29th July in Ballinrobe Race Course. Four teams took part in the Christy O’Loughlin Memorial Cup – Ballinrobe, Shrule/Glencorrib GAA Club, Neale Gaa and Clg Thuar Mhic Éadaigh. The many spectators who came were able to enjoy some great football from the four teams on a lovely summers day. A big thank you to the referee for the matches Mark Tuffy, to the participating teams and coaches – you all did your clubs proud.   Thanks also to the Ballinrobe Agricultural show committee for inviting us to take part. Thanks also to the show committee, Ballinrobe coaches and Ballinrobe Races staff for preparing the playing area and ensuring we all had a very enjoyable day.

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Operation Transformation Walks

  Our walks continued this week and we had great turnouts for both our Thursday and Saturday walks. Ballinrobe GAA club will be continuing with two walks per week as part of Operation Transformation. There will be a walk at 7pm on Thursday evening and another on Saturday morning at 11am. Both walks will begin in The Green and please be there 10 minutes before the walk begins. All are welcome, don’t worry if you haven’t been to any of the walks before you can join up at any time and its free.

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Talk on Giving up Smoking

As part of our healthy club campaign Ballinrobe GAA would like to invite you to a talk with advice on how to Quit Smoking on Wednesday 31th January at 8pm in Tacu. The talk will be given by local pharmacist Declan Burke. The talk is open to everyone in the community and is free of charge.  

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Our first week of our healthy club campaign

The first week of our healthy club campaign was a great success. We have had a very busy week as part of our healthy club campaign, we had a talk on nutrition by Katherine O’Loughlin of KO Nutrition and talk on getting back into exercise from Conor Keane Momentum Performance and Ken McCarty of Western Lakes Cycling Club. Great turnout of over 150 for our first Operation Transformation Walk!! Well done to everyone who participated on Saturday. It was great to see such interest in getting a little more active. Our next walk is in the Green on Thursday @ 7pm, meet at 6:50pm and another walk next Saturday @11am, meeting 10:50am. Thanks to Mayo Sports Partnership for providing some much needed refreshments and helping us promoting the walks. 

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Healthy Club – January 2018

By Declan O’Loughlin January 2018 will see Ballinrobe GAA club launch its first healthy club project. As part of this project we aim to get us all a little more active in 2018.  This will run in conjunction with the very popular RTE program Operation Transformation, and will start on the Saturday 13th January with a walk.  We will be holding two walks per week after that for five weeks. Walking is a fantastic way to keep active and maintain a healthy heart as it is fun, flexible and free. We will also be holding some talks on a range of health topics from – benefits of exercise, nutrition, quitting smoking and stress management.These talks and walks are open to all members of the Ballinrobe community and we will be publishing more details nearer the start date.  

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