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Our South Mayo Skills winners congratulated and wished well in Connacht final

Update, Oct. 6, 2015: At last night’s meeting of the club executive committee, this team and their coaches were congratulated and wished well in Friday evening’s Connacht final at the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence in Bekan. A picture of the winning team in the South Mayo skills competition, left to right: Ryan Corcoran, Gary Mellott, Sean Flannery, Adam Flannery. This is our second year in a row to win this competition. We wish the lads all the best in the Connacht final. Thanks to Coaching Officer Martin O’Connor for the picture.

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Listen back to commentary of SFC relegation play-off v @ShruleGlencorib @spreaker

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.

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Best of luck to @Holly_CarraGAA and @TheNealeGAAClub today

It’s a big day for our neighbours Hollymount-Carramore and The Neale – both of them contest Mayo intermediate football championship semi-finals in McHale Park, Castlebar. The Neale play Moy Davitts at 2pm, followed by Hollymount-Carramore versus Belmullet at 4pm. We wish both clubs the best of luck and hope there will be a all-south final. Meanwhile, we play Shrule-Glencorrib at 12noon in Hollymount in the Mayo SFC relegation decider.

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Audio reports from @ClaremorrisGAA 1-16, Ballinrobe 0-12, Mayo SFC relegation game

Liam Horan, Webmaster, here – 3G and one of the apps I was using proved a bit unreliable from yesterday’s game in Hollymount, so only getting around now to uploading the half-time and full-time audios. Full-time score: Claremorris 1-16, Ballinrobe 0-12. Full-time REPORT Half-time REPORT to we will have updates here during the game, broadband permitting. Venue is Hollymount, throw-in, 5.30pm. If this page isn’t live, go to left hand side of our home page and see our Twitter feed. Refresh the page and the updates will flow in there.   Mayo SFC relegation play-off: Saturday, September 26 In Hollymount Ballinrobe v Claremorris Throw-in: 5.30pm. Ref Ronan Gurren, Aghamore. If we win, we are safe in senior football for 2016. If we lose, we play the losers of Ballyhaunis v Shrule-Glencorrib – and if we win that game, we are safe. If we lose, we go down. Come out and support the lads versus Claremorris.

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Skills challenge a big attraction at Agricultural Show

From Declan O’Loughlin, chairperson, Robe Rockets: Ballinrobe Agricultural Show very kindly invited the Robe Rockets to this year’s event, we created a skills challenge which proved a great attraction for young and old (and is much more difficult than it looks – thanks to Tom Feerick for his devilish handiwork). We also had a guess the number of footballs in the car – won by Pat Hayes, Hollymount. Prizes were sponsored by Tierney Shoes, Rapunzal Hair Salon, Tracey Pharmacy, Martin Murphy and Ballinrobe Acupuncture Clinic. As always many thanks to our sponsors. Well done to all the Ladies coaches, players (boys and girls) and ladies committee members who helped out in the day. It proved a great way to raise a little money but more importantly promote our club in the community.

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Ladies football teams play Kilmaine

From Declan O’Loughlin, chairperson, Ballinrobe Ladies Football club – reference ladies football games in Kilmaine on Friday evening (see pic below): Robe Rockets – Ladies U10s and U12s played in Kilmaine this evening. We had 13 players line out for the under 12s and 20 line out for the U10s. The girls played in two very close games and as always did our club proud. Many of these girls have only started playing this summer and for some it was their first game for Ballinrobe. A special thanks to parents who ensure the girls get to training and matches, without your assistance there would be no teams. LGFA have devised a coaching resource booklet to encourage underage players to practice their skills at home and remain physical active outside of their weekly coaching sessions and Ballinrobe Ladies have taken part. The coaches were very proud of the levels of skills improvement. All are looking forward to the Ladies first trip to Croke Park on Sept 27th it should be a great day for all our girls.  

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