News 29/01/01

It's that time of the year again! Club membership is now due and is only £10. All senior club members should contact John Brennan @ 22966 and pay their membership as soon as possible.


County Board Tickets

County Board tickets are now on sale in the club at a cost of £60. For every ticket sold, the club will receive £30. James Rocke is coordinating the sale of the county Board tickets within the club. Every club member, adult player and family with underage players is encouraged to buy a ticket. Monies raised will go to the further development of football and hurling within the club. Tickets are available from the following:
James Rocke (25019),
Michael Diskin (24887),
Mick Byrne (21561),
John Brennan (22966),
Philip Heneghan (21086),
Seamus Marrinan (22285),
and Tony Stakelum (26506).

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'Ainsworth Babes' to be honoured at Mitchels dinner

Members of the famous Castlebar junior team known as the 'Ainsworth Babes' who won the West Mayo title for the first time in 1961 will be honoured at the Mitchels dinner. They beat Achill in the West Mayo final.
The team was managed by Tommy Ainsworth who nurtured many of the younger members of the team into future senior players.
The team was captained by Jimmy Heneghan of the Turlough Road and featured players like Seanie Flynn (father of Wally), Frank McDonald, Sean Rice, Martin McManamon, John McGrath, Joe Burke, Tony Grimes (dentist), Aiden Brett (painter), brothers Dan and Paul Darcy, Owen McDonagh, Liam O'Reilly, John McHale (former editor of the Connacht Telegraph), Fr. John Lally, Fr. Sean McManamon and Billy Murphy.
They were one of the very few club teams to wear white jersies and not the red and yellow.

We look forward to meeting them on the night!

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Trip To Kerry

The Mitchels Senior football team have been invited to take part in the Irish Independent (Paidi O Se) football tournament in Ventry on the weekend of Saturday/Sunday 17th and 18th February. A group of approx 30 players will be travelling. Other teams taking part include Fingallians (Dublin), Gaeltacht (Kerry), Simonstown Gaels (Meath), Tirconaill Gaels (London), Dingle (Kerry).

Senior team training

Training commenced a number of weeks ago and continues on Sunday mornings (9.30 a.m) (outdoor), Wednesdays and Fridays (indoors) at 7.30 p.m. Team manager Joe McCabe is very happy with the response he is getting to training so far.

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Heading down under!

Best wishes to Eamon Kennedy who is off to Australia for a year. We would like to wish him well and a bon voyage and look forward to seeing him return to the Mitchels colours next year.

Best wishes are also extended to David Gordon who is part of the Irish Under 17 team due to tour Australia in the spring and to Rory O'Grady who is a member of the Connacht Schools team also travelling to Australia.

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Sympathy

The club would like to extend sympathy to Fiona Kilbane on the recent death of her father. We also would like to extend our sympathy to the Sinnott family in Wexford on the untimely death of Dave Sinnott who played hurling with the Mitchels in the 80's and who had the distinction of winning two Railway cup medals with Connacht during that time.

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Bord na nOg meeting

The first full meeting of Bord na nOg will take place on Wednesday night 31st January in the Traveller's Friend Hotel at 9.30 p.m. Management teams for all underage teams will be selected at the meeting. All members are asked to attend.

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