Ballymac Strictly Love Dancing
We salute all our dancers who gave us such a wonderful nights entertainment last Saturday night in Ballygarry House Hotel: JJ Bonn, & Veronica Heaslip, Seán Savage & Rachel Godley, Wayne Enright & Louise Devoy, Bobby Howard & Denise Kerins, Seán O’Connor & Elaine Jones, Tim O’Connor & Sinéad Joy, Nathan McDonnell & Edel O’Donoghue, John Farragher & Kay Cronin, Mort Murphy & Maura Joy, Christy Leen & Molly Regan, Pádraig Leen & Karen Harty, Terence O’Connor & Michelle Lynch.
For Strictly Love Dancing to be a success, we needed to have twenty-four dancers who were willing to give up their time to put in hours of practice having slips, trips & falls and they did it all with aplomb. Each and every performance was fantastic and everyone in attendance had a wonderful night.
Unfortunately, Stephen Reidy fell ill running up to the night and this was disappointing as Stephen had trained very hard. We thank Stephen for his valuable contribution and wish him a speedy recovery. Christy Leen who took part in 2016 took his place and danced and trained for a full week and on the night both he and his partner Molly Regan won the Judges Prize and Michelle Lynch & Terence O’Connor won the Audience prize.
This year Noelle O’Brien & Lorna Leen led the Strictly Organising Committee. They did a wonderful job and we thank all the committee members for their hard work over the past few months: Mike Sweeney, Bridget Leen, Maeve O’Rahilly, Nora Curran, Brendan Falvey, Sheila Ann O’Rahilly, Jer Lynch and Maureen O’Shea.
To all our sponsors too numerous to mention and everyone who supported us on the night your support is greatly appreciated & long may it continue with Ballymacelligott GAA Club.
2018 Tralee Board: Minor Football League
Our Minor team opened their Football year on Sunday last when they played their first game in The Tralee Board .
We have 3 away games and 2 home games.
Our Minor squad this year consists of 11 from last years Minor Squad and 14 players will make their senior club debut this year having played at U16 last year. On Sunday we lost to Austin Stacks and move on with confidence to next Sunday’s game. We wish all our squad and their Management team a successful year. The fixtures for the remainder of the games are as follows.
Round 2 – Sun 10th Feb at 3.30pm in Ardfert
Ardfert v Ballymac
Round 3 – Sun 25th Feb at 12.30pm in Ballymac
Ballymac v Kerins O’Rahillys
Round 4 – Sat 24th March at 12.30pm in Ballymac
Ballymac v John Mitchel’s
Round 5 – Wed 4th April at 12.30pm in Kileen
Na Gaeil v Ballymac
Coaching
Goalkeeper coaching with Joby Costello will take place every Monday evening at John Mitchells Astro from 5.30pm to 7.00pm. Its 10 euro a session but really worth it as our keepers will receive a high quality and very valuable coaching skills from Joby. Ballymac are encouraging as many keepers as possible to avail of this coaching.
Membership 2018
The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is new EU Legislation that comes into effect on May 25th 2018. We are in the process of completing new registration forms to comply with the new legislation. The new forms will be available on the club website at the end of this week. ALL Members will have to complete the New Membership forms for 2018.
Ballymac GAA Lotto Results from 29/01/2018
Venue – Ballygarry House Hotel.
Jackpot – €3,200
Number drawn – 6,7,9,25.
There was no winner this week.
Luck Dip winners:
1: Joan O’Callaghan Killarney,
2: Irene Heffernan C/O Paula Silles.
3: Peg Looney C/O T Marshall
4: Pat McDonnell Ballymac
5: Michael Brosnan Castleisland (On-Line Winner)
Seller – O’Rioda’s Bar
Next weeks jackpot will be €3,300 and the draw will take place in Glenduff Manor on 5th February 2018.
Gaeltacht Scholarships
Gaeltacht Scholarships are funded by GAA Coistí (Munster, Kerry & District Boards) to give some financial help to young students who wish to spend time in Corcha Dhuibhne, West Kerry over the summer months. If you wish your child to avail of the scoláireacht, apply immediately by texting your child’s name to Club Secretary at 086-8500392. The scholarship is limited to one per club so a draw will take place in the club if we have more than one applications. Míle Buíochas