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One of the highlights of the Year in the Club is the return of our Academy on Sunday mornings as our players of the future practice and hone their skills under the watchful eyes of their coaches.
This Sunday morning it was a joy to behold dozens of Girls and Boys on the pitch enjoying the fun and games for an hour. It was really great to see so many children enjoying a bit of normality and fun together at our club grounds.
It was a special day for all the children for whom it was their first day at Academy, hopefully it is the beginning of many happy days they will experience at the Club.
Thanks to all parents who brought their children on the morning and who filled out health questionnaires and supported the club on the first day back
Thanks also to all the Club members, Coaches and players who braved the wind and rain and got stuck in!! Thanks to our Senior Ladies and Men who came to mentor our future stars.
Great to see the Healthy Club Project really making a strong positive impression on our pitch and thanks to Lee Strand and Teresa Higgins Walker for supporting us.
Any child from the Parish between the ages of 5-11 interested in joining is welcome on Sunday mornings at 11am at our main pitch.
Any queries please contact one of the Coiste na nOg officers below.
Declan O’Connell (Chairman) 087 0964331
Ger Collins (Secretary) 087 6430693
Stephen O Brien (Coaching Officer) 086 8376432.
U9 Boys
Fáilte ar ais go Ballymac! U9 boys were back in action this morning on the pitch and the weather thankfully held up.
It was great to see a few new faces with us and we had a really enjoyable training session.
We eased the boys back into it by going back over the basic skills and ended our first session with a non-contact match.
Míle buíochas to all the coaches. It’s great to see our community get involved.
See you all next week, same time, same place. Don’t forget to wear your gum-shields and label your water bottle. Ballymac Abú!
Coiste na nÓg
U17 Boys.
Thursday last the 6th May was a good one for our U17 Boys Squad and our Club.
Our outdoor Gym was launched and the boys got on in to the training straight away under the watchful eye of coach Chris Flannery.
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It was great to see Our uU1 s continuing with strength and conditioning outdoors under some wonderful May sunshine. This is following on from the core work that the lads have been doing online in March / April.
One can see that they love it and enjoy the challenges and the work out.
The players can then run and sprint in to same area of the pitch (that was rarely used prior to this) and it leaves the main pitch free for other teams. The planning gone in to this by our Club Coaching and Games Committee has been well done. This is a wonderful innovative facility in our club grounds. The use of an area not often used, and turned it into a fantastic training area.
Long may it be in use and may many players train here in the future.
The squad continue to train on Saturday morning from 11 – 12 30 at the Training pitch Players who have been showing some early promising signs were Eoin Creedon ,Luke Horgan, Gary Lynch, Aidan Horgan and Niall Collins .
We would like to extend our best wishes to our u 17 player Donal Daly who is currently training with the Kerry u 17 Squad. Diligently working away and training on his own on the Ballymac pitch. Hopefully Donal will impress the management team in the U 17 Kerry Squad and become a member of the 202 panel .
U15 Boys
U15s have had great turnouts with over 26 players training hard over the last 2 weeks and are all delighted to be back on the pitches of Ballymac, we look forward to competitive action in early June now and the boys have plenty to practice at home and at training.
U13 Boys
Since returning our U3 Boys have had in excess of 20 players at each training session, they are looking forward to games in June where they will compete in Co League Division 2 with Beaufort, Churchill, Fossa, Listowel and Rathmore.
U11 Boys
Ballymac U11 Boys returned to training last week and were delighted to be back in action with everyone rearing to go.
We had a full turn out of 26 Boys and trained in 2 pods U10/U11 and worked on fitness and ball skills.
Training continue’s every Tuesday 7pm-8pm and Saturday 5.30pm-6.30pm. Ballymac Abú!
Membership
We thank everyone who has paid their membership so far this year. The on-line facility to pay membership is on the club force app and the link is also on our web site. Everyone who returns to play, coach, mentor needs to have membership paid. This is vital so that everyone is covered to train and play going forward.
Ladies News:
Senior Ladies
On Monday night the gates were opened and we saw the return of our Senior Ladies. The last group to return to the pitch. The ladies were put through their paces under the watchful eye of managers Anthony Curran, Dave Keane and Stephen O’Brien. We wish the team and their managers a successful season of football.
Academy
Sunday morning saw our yearly launch of our Academy…welcome back to all the young ladies and welcome to our newest players taking their first tentative steps into football. We hope you have a super season of football and fun.
Last Man Standing
This weekend Round 7 saw the Super Six all back in again. 4 chose Arsenal who play at 7.15 on Sunday evening. 2 others chose Crystal Palace and Liverpool who both came through yesterday.
Health & Wellbeing
No Smoking Initiative
Ita O’Brien from Ballymacelligott GAA Health and Well-being Team officially launched Ballymacelligott GAA ‘NO SMOKING’ initiative on Sunday 9th May 2021.
It was in conjunction with the return of OUR ACADEMY.
Here’s to a healthy start for our future stars!
We as adults can lead by example and promote a healthy environment for all.
Healthy Eating Initiative
The morning kicked off with great fun and healthy eating at our academy. Members the Health & Wellbeing Team handed out healthy snacks to all the boys and girls. Who attended the first day of the Academy 202 . Also thanks to our local milk supplier Lee Strand and Mighty Mikey Milk. Keep a look out for more healthy eating initiatives this week
#healthyclub #communitymatters #weareBallymac
Our web site www.ballymacgaa.ie has videos and all the latest news on Health & Well being initiatives in our club.
Please find a selection of Healthy Club Project updates and information below.
Nutrition & Healthy Eating
Also if you need some inspiration for meal planning. There are over 80 tasty recipes on the Choose to Live Better website: https://www.choosetolivebetter.com/content/healthy-recipes
Bord bia also have lots of tasty recipe ideas if you are looking for inspiration: https://www.bordbia.ie/recipes/
If you are cooking for yourself for the first time, or just want to improve your basic skills, then these beginner cooking videos from Safefood will help you cover all the basics and get you cooking simple healthy meals in no time:
PR & M Committee
Ballymacelligott GAA club has set up a PR & marketing committee and its being Chaired by Sean Hennessy.
If you have any ideas or would like to be involved in a single project let us know. Someone of you may have special talent or level of knowledge that we do not have right now. You may wish to help out in some way..one hour a week, two hours a week….do not wish to attend meetings but would like to contribute to the club in some way? We appreciate any support we get. We have two PROS in the club and next year we are looking for a PRO for Cóiste na nÓg so then we have three. Anyone interested in Coiste na nÓg PRO can get involved now if they wish and will have good practice and experience before the year end.
Ballymacelligott GAA Play Ball Lotto
This week’s Ballymacelligott GAA Play Ball Lotto draw took place at The Club Grounds in Arrabella On Monday evening last.
Dave Slattery & John Rice drew the numbers. Also in attendance was Maureen O’Shea. The video of the live draw can be accessed on our web site each week.
The Numbers drawn were: 20, 6, 10, and 28. There was no winner of the Jackpot of €8900.00
The lucky dip winners were:
€30.00 John O’Rourke
€20.00 Eileen & Jerry Sugrue
The three lucky dip winners of Three Random Quick Picks for next week’s draw were: Neil Mason, Sheila Sweeney, and Lorraine O’Connor. We wish you all every success in the draw.
Jackpot is €9000.00 next week’s
Next week’s draw will take place on Monday 10th May at our own pitch ground in Arrabella.
The draw will take place live on the Ballymacelligott GAA Facebook Page shortly after 6 pm.
You can buy your ticket for the €9000.00 Jackpot next Monday night by logging on to Ballymacgaa.com or from any of our sellers who are now selling from the clubforce mobile phone app.
Anyone having difficulty buying tickets please contact Paula Silles, Dave Slattery, or Maureen O’Shea on 087-9795220.
We appreciate all the support we get from all our supporters especially in the past few weeks since our sales went online.
