{"id":350548,"date":"2026-03-17T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350548\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T09:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:52:09","slug":"excitement-grows-as-ballinrobe-community-school-prepare-for-all-ireland-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/350548\/","title":{"rendered":"Excitement grows as Ballinrobe Community School prepare for All-Ireland final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/video\/gaa\/2033381\/it-showed-the-character-of-the-team-mayo-school-manager-on-semi-final-win.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Ballinrobe Community School<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Mayo<\/a> is full of excitement these days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ladies senior football team\u00a0will play their All-Ireland PPS Senior C final next week, Tuesday, March 24.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a new situation for the school, who is well used to staying in competitions until the final decider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won the Junior All-Ireland in 2024. And now, a lot of these girls are playing now on the same team,&#8221; explains coach Ruth Donnellan, speaking to our Head of Sport Michael Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>Ballinrobe beat Antrim&#8217;s Dominican College in All-Ireland semi-final in Fr Tierney Park Ballyshannon., on Friday, March 6.<\/p>\n<p>It was a thriller that went to extra-time. The Ballinrobe team, coaches by Donnellan, Ruth Burke and Sin\u00e9ad Stagg ensured, greatly thanks to an inspirational Kate Brennan, that they booked their ticket for the final.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the full video, as we visited the school ahead of the big day for plenty of interviews, including chats with captain Ali Hughes and vice captain Emily Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayonews.ie\/news\/gaa\/2032450\/kate-brennan-hattrick-sends-ballinrobe-into-all-ireland-final.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Kate Brennan goals send Ballinrobe into All-Ireland final<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ballinrobe Community School in Mayo is full of excitement these days.\u00a0 The ladies senior football team\u00a0will play their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4365,61,60,14260,8764,70678,43],"class_list":["post-350548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaelic-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-lgfa","tag-mayo","tag-mayo-lgfa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}