In my time the Convent of Mercy in Belmullet was a great school for organising retreats during the school year. These were a blessing whether you were religious, agnostic or atheist , a welcome break from learning by rote or struggling with equations. On one particular occasion one of the nuns during a break from prayer said to us “Today is the first day of the rest of your life “. Of course nowadays, with so many such clichés being shared on Facebook , being uttered in seminars or used in order to market a product, its easy to be cynical but back then, innocent young fella that I was, it struck a chord with me. I recently googled it and it is attributed to a man called Charles Dederich , an Ohioan who worked with addicts and who was involved in a cult called the Church of Synanon. Perhaps a strange man for a nun to be quoting.. or perhaps not.
Mayo entertain Kerry this Sunday in McHale Park in Castlebar , our own cult of true believers will be there in force , we too are addicts and perhaps need the help of a higher power. Club 51 will be meeting in An Sportlann before the game and we ask you come in and make yourselves known. If you like you can say “my name is Roger Milla and I am a Mayo fan”.
Mayo v Kerry 2nd February 2013 in Mc Hale Park Castlebar.
Mayo have lost their two opening games of the NFL , perhaps a draw would have been merited in St. Conleth’s Park but we got what we deserved in Omagh. Personally I am excited to see if my own townie Mikey Sweeney will get a run out. We gave a Kerry a great seeing to last year in the league and I still relish the time we beat them in the league semi-final. Sadly Colm Cooper will not be playing, any contest without him is the lesser for it.
Sunday is the first day of the rest of our year, lets beat Kerry and travel to Westmeath with the wind at our backs. Beir Bua!
Mayo Club 51 will be meeting in the Sportlann from 12 o’clock on Sunday. Make sure to bring plenty of colour and flags as we will be taking loads of Mayo Club 51 fan photos before the match.
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This weekend the All Ireland Club Semi Finals will take place. Mayo’s Castlebar Mitchels will take on Dr Crokes of Kerry in the first of the All Ireland Club semi Final. This match takes place tomorrow in O’Moore Park Portlaoise, with throw in at 3pm. The match will be televised live on TG4. For anyone not able to watch the match live, I’m sure @Maigheoforsam will be tweeting live score updates at the match.
For anyone interested in travelling to the match by train, Irishrail.ie are offering special offers. Train departing Westport at 09.45, Castlebar at 09.56 , Claremorris at 10.20 and arriving in Portlaoise at 13.22. Return leaving Portlaoise at 18.25. The cost of this trip is €30 for adults and €15 for children. Click here for full details. If you are not able to attend the match, Mid West Radio will be broadcasting live from O’Moore Park from just before 3pm. Listen live from anywhere in the world.
In the second semi final, St Vincent’s of Dublin take on Ballinderry Shamrocks of Derry. This match takes place in Páirc Esler Newry. Throw in is at 5pm and this match is also being shown live on TG4. Willie Joe from MayoGAABlog.com will be at this match and I’m sure he will be doing live updates on his twitter feed.
Pictured above this week in Croke Park ahead of this weekends All Ireland Senior Club Semi Finals are; Eamon Fennell, St. Vincent’s; Eoin Brosnan, Dr. Croke’s; Ciarán Naughton, Castlebar Mitchel’s and Kevin Mc Guckin Ballinderry.
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Preview of Castlebar Mitchels v Dr. Crokes by Mike Kelly on Grapevine Sport on CRCfm 102.9.
So here it is, the moment we’ve all been waiting for! The new limited edition Club ’51 t-shirt has been revealed! We have 4 of these up for grabs, thanks to the good folk at T-Rex Clothing, and also our resident design man (I don’t know the technical term, you’ll have to ask him yourself) Aidan!
The winner of our prediction league will get one of these, and we have yet to decide what to do with the other 3. It’s funny, because the last prediction league I was in was very interesting, the people who organised the league actually won it! So it’s not unusual for that kind of thing to happen…
So start doing your research, the prediction league just got serious! The lucky person to be placed last in our league will get their very own limited edition Club ’51 wooden spoon. That will be provided by my good self. So make room on the mantelpiece if the league hasn’t been going to plan!
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