Saturday 6th April, 6.30
Breaffy 1-20
Castlebar 1-11
It was Breaffy who claimed the bragging rights after overcoming parish rivals Castlebar Mitchels by 9 points in a sun soaked Breaffy on Saturday evening. Breaffy were without the injured Seamie O’Shea and James Minogue, while Castlebar left county panelists Donal Vaughan and the Durcan brothers in reserve. The game was end to end for the most part with a total of 33 scores.
The latest Connacht GAA Newsletter for March 2019 has been released. It can be downloaded and read in full from the following link.
Covered in this month’s edition are details on the launches of both the Celtic Challenge and Táin League, details of the usage of the Connacht GAA Centre of Excellence in Bekan, and a full fixture list for this season’s Connacht Senior Football Championship.
You can now play the Breaffy GAA Lotto online! Click here to access our lotto page where by simply selecting your four numbers between 1-36, you could be in with a chance of scooping the jackpot. If there is no jackpot winner, the jackpot is increased and carried forward to the following week’s draw.
Breaffy GAA’s Health and Wellbeing continue to provide our community with a variety of experiences to encourage healthy living in both our physical and mental health. We recently held a very successful Recipes for Success – this is a unique healthy eating/ nutritional initiative designed to respond to an identified need in GAA clubs for practical programmes supporting healthy eating for GAA players and members.
Don’t miss your chance to win with the Breaffy GAA Cheltenham Tipster Competition! Pick your 7 horses each day and join in the fun of the four day Cheltenham festival (10th March to 13th March). The winning horse for each race get 10 points, 5 points for 2nd place, 3rd place 3 points and fourth place 1 point. Double points for the feature race winner each day. The winner is the person who has accumulated the most points at the end of the festival. Don’t delay, register online now HERE. You will be sent a reminder to select your horses before the festival starts. Good Luck!
If you have any questions contact Michael (0877987865) or Steve (0879053745).
THE RULES
Breaffy GAA’s annual community dinner dance took place last Saturday, January 19th in Breaffy House Resort. As always, the Breaffy GAA Dinner Dance was an opportunity for all members of the community to socialise and celebrate the success of all of our club teams throughout the year.
On December 29th, Breaffy’s senior men’s and women’s teams took to the field in Ballyheane to play two challenge games against ISSC Vancouver. Over 40 Vancouver players and management travelled from all corners of Ireland and from Canada for the games to pay tribute to our great mutual friend and team-mate, David Gavin.
Once again on St. Stephen’s Day last, Breaffy GAA hosted our second annual fundraising blitz between senior players past and present. Four teams competed to dethrone last year’s champions, “The Oldies”, to determine who would earn this year’s bragging rights.
The latest Connacht GAA Newsletter December 2018 is available for download from the following link.
This month’s edition contains the news that Connacht GAA have been announced amongst the first round of successful applicants for Department of Rural and Community Development Minister Michael Ring’s €1 billion Rural Regeneration and Development Fund.
The Breaffy GAA Bord na nÓg presentation night took place on Sunday, December 2nd. Senior players James Minogue and Robbie Fadden were on hand to present our young stars with their awards on the night.