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Coiste na nÓg & Coaching & Games
U17 Boys
Our U17s boys are under the remit of Coiste na nÓg this year. Chris Flannery the former Kerry Minor S&C coach is coaching them this year and has given the players a full home work out and nutrition plan to follow for 4 weeks. They have completed one week and they are working diligently on the plan.
U15 Boys
Cian Counihan is doing on line sessions with u15s for the next 4 weeks. One session done and three to go. Thanks to Cian for doing this.
U13 Boys
Our u13s are starting on line teams sessions from Sunday night 14th March. They started with a team meeting and have been given the outline of the course
U11 Boys
Our U11s have been givena home workout to do and we hope they are all making a special effort to complete it.
U9 Boys
The U9 coaches are hoping to start them off with something this week so we will keep you posted.
Academy
We hope all our Boys and Girls enjoyed the Buddy academy and will be out walking and saying a few words of Irish every day for Seachtain na Gaeilge! Keep the exercises up and you might meet Buddy out walking this week. Go raibh maith agat Buddy.
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
Health & Wellbeing Committee
Thank You: Buddy and Nonie
Buddy was an overwhelming success for the past four weeks. WE hope all the boys and girls enjoyed the exercises. Thanks to everyone who took part and all the Super Stars in the The classes will remain on the link so tune in anytime if you want to join Buddy again. This week Buddy & Nonie hope you will walk every day and practice your Irish. GET UP & GET MOVING! LET’S HAVE SOME FUN!
Siúl agus caint to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge.
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.
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 on web site/facebbok or ring one of our volunteers below. 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.
Volunteers
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.
Public course: The Science of Health and Happiness
The RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health presents a new online public course entitled ‘The Science of Health and Happiness’.
During this 10-week course, we will explore how the principles of positive psychology and lifestyle medicine can be used to improve our health and optimise our well-being. We will cover a range of topics including whole person health, strengths, mindfulness and meditation, and obstacles and paths to happiness.
Launching on 3 March, this is a practical course, consisting of 10 pre-recorded online lectures, presented at a rate of one per week. No fees are required and the course is open to anyone who is interested in improving their health and happiness.
Registration will remain open for the duration of the course. Once registered, you will receive an email with further details and the link to access the course content.
An overview of the topics covered each week are summarised below.
Getting started: About this course; Diseases of lifestyle and the challenge of being healthy and happy in the modern world.
Biology: mind-body connections in health and disease: How are our minds, our brains and our bodies interlinked? What are the roots of positive health?
Whole person health: How to be healthy – lessons from biology and psychology; Major strategies for optimising your health.
What are the routes to happiness I?: Misconceptions about happiness; Can we study happiness scientifically; the science of positive psychology; why mindset matters; what won’t make you happy?
What are the routes to happiness II?: Strategies for finding happiness; PERMA, gratitude; savouring; love and positive relationships; empathy, compassion and kindness
Meditation for health: Mindfulness and meditation
Your emotions and you: What is emotional intelligence? How do you cultivate positive emotions? How do positive emotions broaden and build our resources? What is flow?
Your strongest self: Resilience trauma and growth; How do you find and use your core strengths? How do you develop optimism?
Happiness through the life-cycle: Fostering happiness, health and well-being in childhood and adolescence; ageing well
Putting it all together: Key takeaways; key strategies for happiness and health; your life’s meaning
The course content will be delivered by:
Professor Ciaran O’Boyle, Director of the RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health
Dr Trudy Meehan, Senior Clinical Psychologist, specialising in child and adolescent mental health, and lecturer at the RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health
Dr Pádraic Dunne, Immunologist, practicing psychotherapist and meditation teacher and lecturer at the RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health
All the links will be on our web site from Tuesday.
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”,
Fundraising opportunities are much needed, but are at a minimum again this year. Our Last Man Standing Fundraiser stated on Friday 12th March and we are delighted that there are 125 participants. Thank you to everyone who is taking part, with a special thanks to Sean Hennessy, Maureen O’Shea and Don Brosnan for getting the competition up and running.
Lidl Level the Playing Field
Lidl Level the Playing Field is a fantastic initiative with the aim of closing the gap between Ladies Gaelic Football and their main counterparts. We are calling on all members of the community to help us to level the playing field by downloading the Lidl Plus app and selecting Ballymacelligott. The minimum target is to collect 50 stamp cards which will give us one set of jerseys. So far, we have 4 stamp cards collected. The closing date is 11th of April. Thank you to those who have already started collecting stamps.
Coaching Officer for Ladies
The Ladies Club in search of a Coaching officer to work alongside Stephen O’Brien. Anyone who is interested should contact Sean Hennessy.
Senior Ladies
Senior Ladies continue their weekly online sessions, which are a mix of strength and conditioning and cardio.
U16 Girls
U16 girls have begun their preseason training at home. They are taking part in a weekly online training session and this week completed a 2km run. Well done to all those who took part this week.
Join our seachtain na Gaeilge walk
March is a busy month of celebrations- 8th March International Women’s Day, 14th March Mother’s Day, 17th March St Patricks Day and of course Seachtain na Gaeilge runs from 1-17th March. We encourage all of our club members to get out for a walk and share a cúpla focal with those they meet along the way. Keep an eye on the website for a daily greeting and of course, log your walk on the website to be part of the daily graph.
‘Be Ready to Play’
The Gaelic Games family launched ‘Be Ready to Play’, a Coaching and Sport Science programme on March 2nd. 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. Follow the link to join the next webinar. https://learning.gaa.ie/bereadytoplay
March GAA Club Newslettter from Croke Park
The GAA March GAA Club Newslettter containing news and information for all club members is now available on our web site. Unfortunately it comes in an e format only. Its an excellent resource. If you can have a read or put it up on your screen for someone to read as its very informative.
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.
Congratulations
We extend our congratulations to June and Bobby Fitzgerald, Ballyfinogue,
Rathanny who celebrated their Golden wedding anniversary on the 11th March. Go mara sibh céad.
Sympathy
We extend our sincere sympathy to
Pat McDonnell, Rathanny and all the McDonnell family on the death of Pat’s brother Brian in London. And to Ann and all the Bradley family and Noreen De Lacy on the recent death of Eamonn Bradley, Arrabella. May They Rest in Peace.
