Tralee Senior Town league
Ballymac V Kerins O’Rahillys
Sunday 17/02/2019
It may be February 17th but this game had a quality that wouldn’t have gone amiss in July given the favourable conditions, quality of the pitch and the positivity shown by both teams.
Kerins O Rahillys exploded out the blocks to race into a 1-3 to 0-1 lead but as we’ve seen on numerous occasions this year, Ballymac are nothing if not resilient. A wonderful turnover by Vinny Horan was expertly dispatched to the net by Luke Sweeney and all of a sudden it was game on again.
Despite being under severe pressure at times, good defending by Genie Griffin, Cian Counihan and Micheal Reidy kept the scoreline to just a 2 point deficit, 1-3 to 1-5 at the break.
Usually games slow down during the second half but the pace and intensity increased but in the space of a little over 10 minutes Ballymac and Kerins O Rahillys traded scores with abandon and the scores were level pegging 2-6 for Ballymac and 1-9 for Kerins O Rahillys.
Points were traded before a goal chance was miraculously cleared off the line by Connie Kelly. Going into the last five minutes the scores were level 2-10 to 1-13 with everything to play for. Ballymac finished strongly with points from Aidan Breen and Daniel O Shea to steer them home for an historic victory, 2-13 to 1-13.
Minor County League
FINUGE 3—10 BALLYMAC 1—10
Our first Co League fixture was away to Finuge last Saturday evening. The home side were the better team in the first half with B allymac coming more into it as the game went on.
Even though Finuge were physically stronger Ballymac were unlucky not to have taken more of their chances in the first half.Finuge were 1-3 to 0-1 ahead after 10 minutes, and scored 5 more before the break with Ballymac getting another two to leave the half time score Finuge 1-8 Ballymac 0-3.
Ballymac got 3 points early in the 2nd half while Finuge pointed and crucially scored 2 goals inside 2 minutes.Dara Broderick, who was our main scorer, got a goal and successive points but our opponents were too far ahead to be caught.Our next game is against Austin Stacks on wk/end 23 Februrary.
TEAM E Kenny, C Godley, J Bailey, D Sweeney, J Lowe, B Cassidy, D Dunne Moriarty, D Broderick, A Joy, D Leen, D Daly, S Horan, D Mchugh. Subs C Brosnan, C Coggin, B Godley
Membership 2019:
Membership for Ballymacelligott GAA Club for 2019 is online only. All players, administrators and coaches/mentors have to pay membership. Membership can be paid via club web site www.ballymacgaa.com
Ballymacelligott GAA Club
www.ballymacgaa.com
Senior Team Our Senior team got a walk over from Ardfert last Sunday when they played Round 3 of The St Brendan’s Board Senior League. Next weekend they play John Mitchel’s at 2pm in John Mitchel’s.
. The link is on the front page. Membership can also be paid via the app Myclubfinances that is available from the app store. The online payment complies fully with data protection legislation.
Ballymac GAA tribute to Dan McElligott, formerly of Caher, Ballymacelligott.
Ballymac GAA put up a very special tribute to Dan McElligott, formerly of Caher, Ballymacelligott. This can be accessed from our Club web site or Facebook page. Dan is currently a member of the Mullinalaghta GAA Club in Longford who faced Dr. Crokes in the All-Ireland Club Semi-Final on Saturday last. Dan also has five sons on the Mullinalaghta panel. This is a lovely tribute and also a very historical video from the club perspective. A very Special thanks to everyone who contributed to this video.
Coiste na nÓg Notes:
U12 Boy
Ballymac U12 boys play their first game of 2019 next Saturday. They play Na Gaeil in the U12 Boys Town League. Throw in in Ballymac at 3pm.
Training this week is between 6-7pm on Wednesday night. Please note we are training in the IT Tralee all weather this week.
U14 Boys.
Our u14 Boys begin their year with a home game against Ardfert in Division One of the Tralee District League at 11am next Sunday.
Check our web site or Facebook for any changes to this fixture.
Church Gate Collection
A Church Gate Collection will take place at all Masses in the Parish this coming weekend for Ballymac Coiste na nOg.All donations greatly appreciated.
Garda Vetting
Please note that all coaches need to be e_Vetted and need to be members of our club.
The e_Vetting can be done online and the link is on the front page of our web site.
The link for membership payment is also on the front page of our web site.
Click on to www.ballymacgaa.com and follow links
Upcoming Coaching Workshops for CLUB COACHES.
Details of confirmed dates for coaching workshops.
1. Feb 18th Tralee CBS at 7.30pm
– Games Based Coaching
2. March 11th Tralee CBS at 7.30 pm
– u 10/12 Coaches (Coaching through Games)
3. March 25th (U 6/8 Coaches)
– TBC
Lotto Results:
Congratulations to Pauline Mallaby, Kielduff who won the Lotto Jackpot of €8,300.00 on the 4th February 2019. The Cheque will be presented to Pauline on Friday 1st March in Ballingarry House Hotel.
The Lotto draw for 11th February took place at Ballygarry House Hotel
The Numbers Drawn were : 9, 11, 15 & 26.
The Jackpot of €1500.00 was not won.
Congratulations to the following Lucky Dip winners (€30 EACH)
1. Gary Savage C/O Tom Leen
2. Mary Landers C/O Tony Marshall
3. Paul Kennedy C/O The Bus To Clonmel
4. Helen O’Connor, Doon, Tralee
5. Ann O’Connor Dromtacker, Tralee
Sellers prize: Tom Leen (€30)
Next Draw: 18th February @ Kielduff Community Centre
Jackpot is €1,600.00
We are very grateful to all our lotto sellers and supporters.
Our Senior team are organising a special fundraiser.
First prize € 500
Three prizes of € 10
And four prizes of € 50
The raffle will take place Saturday 23rd of Feb at The Halfway Bar in Ballymac .
Tickets are just €5 and can be purchased from any senior player.
