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Our club member Alan Murphy, whose excellent form in this year’s Mayo SFC resulted in a call-up to the Mayo senior squad during the summer, will receive the Golden Boot award Joint Top Scorer from Play in the Mayo SFC at the Mayo News Club Stars awards on Saturday, December 15, in Knockranny House Hotel, Westport. And Alan is also in strong contention for a place on the Team of the Year on the same night. “The selection panel of Mayo News GAA writers Sean Rice and Austin Garvin, former Knockmore manager, Eamonn Clarke, and Mid West Radio co-commentator John Casey unanimously agreed that Alan’s performances throughout this year’s club championship were deserving of selection on our awards shortlist,” said Mayo News secretary, a former secretary of our club and also a former club player. The club will be represented at the banquet, which is always a wonderful night, and anyone who would like to secure tickets (€60) can do so by contacting Cepta at The Mayo News office on  (098) 25311. They are on a ‘first come, first served’ basis and there is a lot of interest at the moment. We are hoping to have as many club people as possible along on the night to support Alan and his family. All proceeds to to Mayo/Roscommon Hospice. The event MC is our club secretary Liam Horan. “A four-course meal will be served, Armagh All-Ireland winner Oisín McConville is our Special Guest, and there will be live music with Riverdeep,” added Mike.

It is with deep regret that Ballinrobe GAA Club records the passing of Christy O’Loughlin, Kilmaine Road, Ballinrobe. Mr O’Loughlin made an enormous contribution to our club, and many other aspects of community life in Ballinrobe. A native of Corrofin, Co. Clare, he moved to Ballinrobe in 1970 to work as farm manager at the agricultural research station at Creagh, Ballinrobe. He became immersed in the activities of Ballinrobe GAA Club, and for many years, it was a rarity for a club game to take place without Christy in attendance, almost invariably accompanied by his wife Anna. They travelled the length and breadth of Ireland to support Ballinrobe GAA Club, Ballinrobe CBS and Ballinrobe Community School teams. Christy served for a period as vice chairman of our club, and was also heavily involved in the physical developments of our club facilities at Flanagan Park. He also played an active part in Ballinrobe hurling club during the 1970s and 1980s. Not surprisingly, they reared a family steeped in the GAA, and the O’Loughlin name was a regular fixture on club teams at all levels throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. Family members also contributed at coaching and administrative levels within the club. In recent years, a third generation of O’Loughlin’s have started to wear the club jersey, an enormous source of pride to Christy and Anna. Christy O’Loughlin was an intensely popular person in our club and community. He was a prominent member of the local Agricultural Show and fishing organisations. He was respected for his good humour, sense of optimism, and willingness to contribute in whatever way he could. We extend our deepest sympathy to his wife Anna; sons James, PJ, Brendan, Declan and Fergal;  daughter Evelyn; daughters-in-law; son-in-law; grandchildren and extended family members on their grave loss because, most of all, Christy was a devoted family man. May he rest in peace. Funeral arrangements are available here: http://bit.ly/TpQWT0 –          Alan Flannery, Chairman, Ballinrobe GAA Club

No game for us last week, so we don’t feature in the Results circular. Check out other games HERE

See HERE for this week’s Mayo GAA fixtures. We have no game this week – our final game of the year is a Mayo SFL Division 1A game against Knockmore, which may be on the weekend after this coming one.  

You can get a full list of Mayo GAA fixtures for the week ahead HERE. We have no game this week.

Go HERE to see the Mayo GAA results for the past week.

For people interested in looking at sports performance from a number of different angles, there are some interesting events coming up around Mayo. Wednesday, November 14th:  Achieving Success in Sport seminar (scroll down that page a little) – with Sonia O’Sullivan, Aidan O’Shea, Gavin Duffy, Ciaran Kelly and Brendan Murphy. This event is chaired by our club secretary Liam Horan Monday, November 19th: Performance Analysis Seminar  

Dear Member. We are trialling a new fundraising model that will help the club generate money from social media activity. This service is free for us to use and works by using the expanded social networks of our club members to generate funds. It works on a fairly simple basis in that we post campaigns (commercial messages) from our group on www.knudger.com that appear in our social media networks and once our friends or followers click on the messages the club is paid a donation. We have set up a Ballinrobe GAA on the platform at this link: http://tinyurl.com/aucqaba Instructions 1. Go to and join our group by clicking the link 2. Register your details and social media accounts (you may need your twitter and Facebook user names and passwords) 3. Once in the group click on the Ballsbridge Hotel Promotion 4. Click knudge and if happy with the text click send message. 5. This message with a link will now appear on your social media profile. 6. Club is paid each time your friends click on the link and visit the site The system allows us to add our own text and we all have different way of talking when in our own social networks but it might be useful too add the text ‘Please help us fundraising as Ballinrobe GAA Club is paid for each visit to the link. ‘ The service connects to over 8 social networks so if you have multiple accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or blogs please use them all.