Ballymacelligott GAA club notes Sunday 16th January 2022
by Joanne Long PRO.
Club News
This week club committees met for the first time of 2022
Our senior committee is as follows
Chairperson – Mike Sweeney
Vice Chairperson – Bernard Cassidy, John Rice
Secretary – Veronica O’Donnell
Assistant Secretary – Aidan Savage, Declan O’Connell
Treasurer – John Rice
Assistant treasurer – Jer Lynch
Registrar – Maureen O’Shea
PRO – Joanne Long
Children’s Officer – Joanne Long
Scór Officer – Tom Herlihy
Health and Wellbeing Officer – Oonagh ORahilly
Our Coiste na Nóg commitee
Chairperson – Kieran Savage
Vice chairperson – Jeff Griffin
Secretary – Sinead Joy
Coaching officer – Stephen O’Brien
We would like to thank the outgoing committee members for all the hard work they have done for the club.
Club Senior Team
Our Senior team had a big turnout for their first session of 2022 on Sunday morning.
A great start to the year with an inspirational talk from Ballymac’s own Ciara Griffin
“It is not the number on your back but the crest on your chest”
Well done to our Senior player Tomas OConnor and his MTU team mates on a great win on Wednesday over UCD in Sigerson
MTU Kerry 1-13 UCD 0-11
Membership for 2022
Membership for Ballymac GAA Club 2022 is now open on The Club Website and Clubforce App.
All rates are the same as last year except for the Ladies membership from U11 up. These will be known later in the year.
Full details are on our website and the club force app.
This year we continue with the facility we introduced last year whereby anyone can pay membership by instalments.
We thank everyone in advance for paying membership to our Club.
Any queries in relation to membership please contact Maureen O’Shea our Club Registrar.
Coiste na nÓg
Well done to our club players who are playing in Corn Ui Mhuiri 1/4 finals on Saturday.
On the Mounthawk team we had Brian Godley, Niall Collins, Sean Rice and
on CBS The Green we had Adam Sheehy, Darragh Sweeney and Donal Daly
Results.
Mounthawk team lost in the smallest of margins, hard luck lads
Mounthawk 1-10 Hamilton 3-5
CBS The Green came away with a great victory
CBS The Green 4 – 13 Clonakilty CC 1 -7
Well done to players and management and best of luck in the next round
Health and Wellbeing
On Sunday afternoon the Health and Wellbeing committee welcomed club members and the wider community to our club grounds where we remembered Ashling Murphy RIP. We did so by having a minute silence and everyone placed a candle in her memory.
We had beautiful music from Roanna O’Sullivan and Deirdre Millane.
Ladies News
A great day out for the Ballymac Ladies Football team who called into O’ Brennan NS, Clogher NS, Flemby NS and Scoil Nuachabháil. They brought along their Junior C County Championship & North Kerry U16 trophies. Thanks to all the local children for welcoming them. We are looking forward to seeing the future talent coming up through the ranks!
Lotto
Play Ball Lotto Results 10th January 2022.
Last Monday’s night Play Ball Lotto Draw was made by Club PRO Joanne Long , Jer Lynch Chairman of the Lotto Committee, Liz, Millie and Timmie Sheehan.
Prior to the draw, Jer Lynch expressed The Lotto’s Committee sympathy to the family & friends of Willie Costello who sadly passed away on Christmas day. Willie was a member of the Club’s lotto committee since 2000 when he was Assistant Treasurer of the club.
The Jackpot was €12,300.00.
The numbers drawn were 22,14, 15 and 20. There was no winner of the jackpot.
Congratulations to the three lucky dip winners.
€30.00 Linda Butler
€20.00 Bruce Hannah
€20.00 Conor McCarthy
Next week’s Jackpot is €12,400.00 and the draw will take place on Facebook Live on Monday 17th January 2022 after 6 pm.
Ticket sales close at 6 pm sharp.
Thanks to the Half Way Shop for coming on board and selling the lotto tickets each week. Tickets can be purchased 3 x €5.00 at the shop during the week. The staff will input into the Mobile app and everyone will get a receipt by text message. The closing time for entries from shop will be 4pm on Mondays to facilitate the draw
Tickets can be purchased from our Club force app or from our website ballymacgaa.com
Tickets can be purchased from any of our sellers who are now selling from the clubforce mobile phone app. Our nominated seller this week is Paula Silles and if you wish to contact Paula , she will be delighted to assist you.
Once again we thank your support and we wish you a very happy and healthy 2022.