Celebrity Bainisteoir
A tremendous honour was bestowed upon our club when the intermediate football team of Ballymun Kickhams was selected to be Dublin’s representatives in the ‘Celebrity Bainisteoir 2010′ competition run by RTE. And excitement levels within the club reached fever pitch when the celebrity was revealed to the team and club members, as none other than Mairead Farrell. Her status as one of Ireland’s foremost broadcasters and a renowned member of ‘The Panel’ on RTE, instantly had not only the club, but the whole community talking about the club’s participation in the competition. Mairead instantly immersed herself into both the team and the club, with her son, participating in the club’s academy summer camp, and Mairead attending, and slowly beginning to take over the training sessions for the team. The training however, hit an all time high in intensity stakes, when mentor to Mairead and Dublin legend, Ciaran Whelan attended a mid week training session. The professionalism and intensity of that session had not only the team exhausted, but most of the onlookers exhausted also!
Ballymun were drawn to play against Fermoy, Cork, and the decision to play at home or away was made by an obstacle course challenge laid down to both teams in the army camp, in the Curragh. Following a more than dubious finale, and a sudden death tug of war to decide the staging of the event, Fermoy emerged as victors. But this is only the start of the battle. The dubious nature of the defeat will not be forgotten by the men from Ballymun. The game is due to take place on Saturday evening, 31st July in Fermoy, and it is hoped that the club will be running buses down to ferry all the support we can muster for this tremendous occasion, and in turn, to help the lads by supporting them to victory over Fermoy.
In the years this competition has been run, no Dublin club has ever won the 1st round game. Ballymun intend to grind that statistic firmly down with a victory, and hopefully a home game for the second round. Any further updates will be added in due course, so keep your eyes peeled, and support the lads in this exciting venture for all involved in Ballymun Kickhams. The team and club members would like to thank the numerous sponsors who have committed much needed funds in this difficult time, and would ask, where possible, that we in turn support the sponsors.
For more information, please contact any member of the executive or pro@ballymunkickhams.com
Thanks to all our Sponsors:
Northwood Technologies – www.northwoodtechnology.ie
Dunne Property Management – info@dunnepropertymanagement.ie
Aer Lingus – www.aerlingus.com
Ballymun Job Centre
BRL
Ballymun Community Law Centre – www.bclc.ie
Centra (Quinns)
DAA
Dublin Bus – www.dublinbus.ie
GAGABABY – www.gagababy.ie
Honest2Goodness(H2G) The Real Farmers market – www.honest2goodness.ie
Nutri-Grain
McCabes Pharmacy
Paddy Power – www.paddypower.com
Paul’s Paint Store – 44 Prussia Street, D7
Supervalu
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