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A blast from the past : Ballymac U16 Team from the 1983. Jimmy Fitz, Patrick Lynch, Donal Healy, James Godley, Patrick Godley, Donal Pierse, John Kerrisk, Pat O’Donnell, Liam BrickLiam Galvin, Jamesie O Connor, Don Brosnan, DD O’Rahilly , James Breen,Johnny McNulty, John Scanlon, Sean Lambe, Tommy O’Connor
Good Luck to our Senior Management Team
At the clubs executive meeting last Friday night Ruraí O’Rahilly and his Management team were ratified as the group to take charge of our Senior Team for 2021. Ruraí’s selectors going forward are Tom Shea and Frank Rahilly. Kevin Leen is in charge of Logistics and Aidan Savage takes charge of Statistics. Ruraí has trained our underage teams, school teams with the CBS and has been a player and selector for our senior team. His leadership and communication skills are well known. We in Ballymac GAA are lucky to have someone of that calibre in the Parish and from the Parish taking over the senior management role. He is a great role model for our young players. We look forward to supporting you all, once the season starts up.
Hugh Congratulations to Our All Star!
Congratulationsand very well done to Ballymacelligott Club man Tomás O’Connor who has been named on the Joe McDonagh All Stars Team for 2020. We are very proud and honoured to have this mighty dual player in our midst. A gentleman both on and off the pitch!! Enjoy this special moment Tomas, it is very well deserved and earned.
Health & Wellbeing Committee
Buddy Time has arrived.
Buddy is helping our young future stars keep fit over lockdown! He was seen flying around the Parish on Sunday morning for a while making sure all the girls and boys were ready.
Ballymac Health & Well-Being invite all children aged 4 to 7 years old, who live in Ballymac to join us live Sunday next 28thFebruary at 11.00am. Anyone who missed last Sunday’s class can check the recording during the week and have a fun exercise class with Buddy & Friends any time at all. The link will be available on our website and Facebook and Twitter pages. If you want the link and cant find it text 0879795220 and we will send directly to your phone. We have a new class live on Sunday next and Buddy wants to see EVERY boy and girl on Sunday morning!
GET UP & GET MOVING! LET’S HAVE SOME FUN!
Pledge today to squeeze in a read on Thursday 25 February & sit down and read & relax for 15 minutes on the day itself.
Reading is one of the best things families can do together – or apart if the house is starting to feel crowded!
On Thursday 25 February Ballymac GAA Health & Wellbeing Committee is encouraging, adults and children of all ages to get reading.
Did you know that “IRELAND READS” It is anew national day to celebrate reading
Why? Because taking some time for yourself to relax and do the things you enjoy (like reading) is important to help look after your mental wellbeing.
Take the pledge log in below and see how many minutes people all over Ireland will be squeezing in to read on Thursday 25 February.
Just let us know how many hours or minutes you would like to pledge to read by logging on to the clubs web site ballymacgaa.com and following the link.
Ireland Reads is a public libraries initiative, in partnership with publishers, booksellers, authors and others under the Government’s ‘Keep Well’ campaign
U15 Boys:
We had a great turnout from our U15 players for the 2km runs last weekend and again this weekend with over 20 players taking part on their own and uploading the photos to our coaching & games coaches. In addition to this the lads loved the zoom class with Vinny Horan who they look up to as one of our best senior players and full-time fitness trainer. We had 23 on the zoom class last Thursday night. These are great initiatives and will be great for the lads to get some exercise while being part of their Club. We sincerely thank Vinnie for giving his time and putting in such a big effort to train the younger players while in Lockdown.
County Coiste na nÓg Updates:
Please find attached an update on the current position in relation to Coiste na nÓg activities.
While all activities are paused for now, we ask Clubs to ensure that all coaches have the following three steps completed which are now required by law:
1. Garda vetting
(Must be completed every three years so if previously Garda Vetted between 2016 to 2018 they will need to reapply again)
2. GAA Child Safeguarding 1
3. The GAA foundation award at minimum
We want to remind Clubs that Kerry GAA Coaching and Games have a number of training sessions on their YouTube platform to keep players motivated during the current lockdown.
comment on. Kerry Coiste na nÓg will not be sending out any groups/fixtures over the
next couple of weeks or until we have a potential start date for our competitions.
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As before, we continue to urge clubs to follow the current guidelines. As the numbers decrease, the vaccination continues and the evenings begin to stretch, we can be hopeful that we can return to our playing pitches over the coming months, but until then we must continue to adhere to the nationwide restrictions.
Membership for 2021
Membership for Ballymac GAA Club 2021 is now open on The Club Website and Clubforce App. The rates are the same as last year and full details are on our web site and the club force app. There is an additional facility this year that allows you to pay your membership by instalments. We thank everyone in advance for paying membership to our Club.
Help Ballymacelligott LGFA
Help Ballymacelligott LGFA Level the Playing Field by collecting stamps with Lidl plus until 11th April.
There are some great rewards from a set of jerseys to cash rewards, all which would be beneficial to our club for when we return to the pitch.
All you have to do is follow these 4 simple steps:
1. Download/Open the Lidl Plus app and follow the prompts on screen
2. Select the club you want to support
3. Spend over €30 in store and scan your Lidl Plus card to earn a stamp (over €60 = 2 stamps, over €90 = 3 stamps, etc.)
4. Collect 6 stamps and submit your completed card by Sunday, April 11th
Sean Hennessy Chairman of Ballymac LGFA and Veronica O’Donnell PRO of Ladies LGFA have done a lovely Video to explain this in full and its available on our web site and Social Media outlets.
Ballymac Play Ball Draw results for Monday 15th February 2021
The results of our Play Ball Draw for the 15th February 2021 (totally online due to Covid19 restrictions) are as follows.
The numbers drawn in this week’s play Ball lotto were: 5,13,21 and 8.
There was no winner of the Jackpot of €1260.00
Congratulations to the lucky-dip winner Jacqueline Hayes
We appreciate your support Jacqueline and thank you for supporting Ballymac GAA.
We thank everyone who supported Ballymac GAA Play Ball Draw this week.
All the money raised, is for the upkeep of our two pitches
Next week’s Jackpot is €1280.00 and the draw will take place on Monday 22nd February after 9 pm
https://play.clubforce.com/play_newa.asp?ll_id=2258&PC=0&RP=#Anchor
If you cannot manage to play on line Ring Maureen on 087-9795220 and she will help you out.
We really appreciate the support we have got from our play-ball supporters every week.
The minimum purchase of €2.00 per week adds up at the end of the year. We are not playing on our pitches at the moment.
When our players return, we want our pitches and facilities to be in top-class condition and anyone involved in our weekly draw is a partner in this work. We are Ballymac.
Logon to www.ballymacgaa.com to support our Playball fundraiser.
