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Buddy visited The Half Way Shop during the week keeping his fitness up for all the Boys and Girls.
Coaching & Games
The Gaelic Games family launched ‘Be Ready to Play’, a Coaching and Sport Science programme in association with UPMC, official healthcare partner of the GAA and GPA, that will be delivered via webinars, website programmes, instructional videos and live online sessions.
The programme is a holistic coaching and performance plan that will be of great benefit to all club coaches and players, male, female, adult, and youth alike.
It will help them return to training post Covid in a way that will hopefully increase enjoyment, performance, and participation, while simultaneously reducing the risk of injury.
Further details can be found our web site and social media.
Coiste na nÓg
Thank You Frank.
Over the past three years we were very lucky in Ballymac GAA to have Frank Donovan join us as a coach. He ran the academy with precision every Sunday morning and brought energy and excitement to every session. He helped out and ran coaching classes for every team. Frank was a joy to work with and he enthused everyone that he worked with in the club. Recently Frank had to return to Dublin and we will miss him from our club. We thank Frank sincerely for all his hard work and dedication to Ballymac GAA. We wish him every success and we hope he will return to join us all one day soon. Míle Buíochas Frank.
U15 Boys:
We had a great turnout from our U15 players for the 2km runs over the past few weeks. In addition to this the lads love the zoom class with Vinny Horan and they were treated to a
We are very grateful to Bernard Casey who made an appearance at the end of our U15 training last Thursday night. It was an excellent end to the U15 session and enjoyed by every one of our hardworking players.
Coaches, Mentors & Administrators: Is your Garda Vetting Up to Date?
Hopefully we will soon be back on the pitch. In order to we be ready for 2021 season we need to have our Garda vetting up to date. All those vetted in 2016,2017 and 2018 now need to be re-vetted.
How do I get Garda vetted?
These are the steps
Go into wwww.kerrygaa.ie
Go to committees
Down to child welfare
Scroll down to Garda vetting in the gaa
How to be garda vetted and click no 1
If anyone has any difficulty our Children’s Officer Joanne Long is more than willing to help and you can contact Joanne on 0876744334
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.
Ballymacelligott Ladies News
“Last Man Standing”,
Ballymac Ladies Club is once again organising a “Last Man Standing”, competition.The teams are from the Premier League and the first games are those being played on the weekend of the 13th March and the entry fee is once again €10.00The rules are the same as previous competition, you can only pick one team once. Prize money is the same €400.Due to the current Health Restrictions our club have very few opportunities for fundraising and this competition must be done online.
We’re asking all sections and members of our club to get involved in this fundraiser. The competition is The Premier League.
Any questions, please text Sean on 086-3853988
What do I have to do to join?
You need to pay your once off €10.00 fee by logging in to our web site ballymacgaa.com or (the Clubforce app) from next Tuesday 9th March and follow the link to pay the €10.00. Be sure and include your mobile number in the information.
You will automatically be emailed a receipt to confirm your payment.
Once you have paid, we will send you a text message asking you for your teams. We will do this each week. You reply to the text message by the given date.
The first week’s teams must be in by 3pm on the 12th March 2021.
Once the payment link is live we will post on web site/Social Media.
Thanks again for your continuous support through this difficult time.
Help Ballymacelligott LGFA Level the Playing Field
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.
Health & Wellbeing Committee
Buddy Time has arrived.
Buddy is continuing every Sunday morning at 11.00am – helping our young future stars keep fit over lockdown! This week he went to The Half Way Shop and was so tired after his exercise he wanted to go home in Bridie’s bike! However, he got his wind back and flew home and got a lot of exercise in.
Ballymac Health & Well-Being invite all children aged 4 to 7 years old, who live in Ballymac to join us live Sunday next 15th March at 11.00am. Anyone who missed the previous 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. 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!
HSE Stress Control Course starts
As the HSE can’t deliver our Stress Control classes in the community just now, Dr Jim White will, instead, live-stream the classes until March, free-of-charge. All the links are on our web site ballymacgaa.com
This is and evidence-based programme that teaches practical skills to deal with stress.
It will help you to recognise the signs of stress such as how stress affects our bodies and our thoughts and help to develop skills to overcome panicky feelings and how to get a good night’s sleep.
The course runs for three weeks starting on the 8th of March (timetable attached) and you can find further details at the following link: www.stresscontrol.ie
All you need to successfully complete this class is to watch each of the six sessions, read the booklets and use the relaxation and mindfulness. You can find the sessions on YouTube.
The HSE YouTube channel where the classes will be available to view at the scheduled times if you want to ‘attend’ the class and will remain online for 48 hours if you want to watch in your own time.
Seachtain Siúlóid agus Caidreacht: Join us for a week of walking
There is an old saying in Irish that the walker is a storyteller…“Bíonn an siúlach scéalach”-! Join us in celebrating Seachtain na Gaeilge by walking and talking to one another every day for a week. All the information is in a printed leaflet in The Half Way Shop and you can join us without any internet, Facebook etc!!
This year, to celebrate “Seachtain na Gaeilge” both of our Committees: Coiste na Gaeilge and Our Health & Well-Being Committee hope that everyone in the Community will join us in a week of walking. Its geared for everyone young and old, those with IT skills and those without. We will clock up the hours walked each day, share a daily graph at the end of each day to show how many minutes/hours walking we have done in our Community!
We also ask you to keep within the guidelines.
Walk around your house for 10 minutes, walk in your garden and within the 5 km limit. If you meet anyone just greet them as Gaeilge and we will share a greeting for each day!
We are asking as many people as possible to walk a little bit every day from Monday 15th March to Sunday 22nd March and this will include St Patricks Day. The full details are on the Form attached. Ideally, we would like everyone involved and we are especially anxious to spread the message to our friends and neighbours that do not have access to Social Media.
Can everyone speak with their family and friends who do not have access to a computer/do not have the skills to input data on line. We have volunteers listed below who will input the data for anyone who is unable to do so. Just ring or text the nominated volunteers below and they will input your data each day. They are looking forward to hearing from you every day. If you can sign off with Slán or Go raibh maith agat.
Contact numbers for our Volunteers who will take daily calls for the week and input on our web site: So if you walk 10 minutes or over an hour on any given day, fill up the form on the web site, and if you cannot do so ring any of our contacts below with the amount of time walked on that day.
Catherine: 087-9748507
Josephine: 086-1607355
Avril: 086-3006479
Tom: 087-3106377
Maureen 087-9795220
Má tá beagán Gaeilge agat agus más mian leat a bheith páirteach linn san obair seo chuir glaoch – 087 9795220.
GAA Museum Book Club.
While it’s not possible to visit the GAA Museum or its Library & Archives in person right now, you can still learn more about Gaelic Games and the history of the Association by becoming a member of their new virtual GAA Museum Book Club.
Each month the GAA Museum team will choose a well-known GAA book to read and review. At the end of the month, the museum will host a free online interview with the author, in which members can submit questions and comments. The ambition of the book club is to review some of the great GAA books and to give us all a much-needed sporting boost as we stay at home. You can find out more and how to get involved via the following by logging on to our web site.
Ballymac Play Ball Draw results for Monday 7th March 2021.
The results of our Play Ball Draw for the 1st March 2021 (totally online due to Covid19 restrictions) are as follows.
The numbers drawn in this week’s play Ball Draw were:16, 26, 6, and 12.
There was no winner of the Jackpot of €1300.00
Congratulations to the lucky-dip winner Sinéad Regan
We appreciate your support Sinéad 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 €1320.00 and the draw will take place on Monday, March 8th after 9 pm
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.
Log on to www.ballymacgaa.com to get any information as listed above and to support our Playball fundraiser.
