Ballina Basketball - Assistance required

[stephenite]

Lads and Lassies,
You may have read about it and the majority of you I'm sure are not bothered in the slightest.

The Irish Superleague have taken the extraordinary step of moving the Ballina club (Team Merry Monk) to the Southern conference of the Superleague competition.
The knock ons from this decision is that Ballina will not realistically be able to compete in the league due to huge increased travel costs.

The club has long been the standard bearer for Basketball in the West of Ireland and of course Ballina Stephenites and Mayo have seen the benefit of having players from Basketball grace our fields during the off season ( Liam MacHale and Ronan McGarrity the obvious ones ) but the amount of others that don't make the headlines is quite large, there is a lot of goodwill between the GAA clubs of the region and the basketball club
The club provides enormously for the community and the young people of the town, would appreciate all who could take the time to sign this petition.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-ballina-basketball.html

[mannix]

Good man stephenite, hopefully this will help the them.

[the Deel Rover]

ye i'll be signing it stephenite if they move them to the southern conference it will cost them an extra €10,000 per annum on travel and its hard to gather that sort of money.

[laceer]

played a bit of basketball for dungannon a while back and always were well looked after in ballina.can remember an almighty row after the game one year,gardai called and everything..then the whole thing headed for a pint together.mchale and mcstay were 2 legends.also ballina were involved in the highest attended bball game ever in dungannon-almost 900 ppl which was an unbelievable amount for a gaelic/soccer town

[the Deel Rover]

played a bit of basketball for dungannon a while back and always were well looked after in ballina.can remember an almighty row after the game one year,gardai called and everything..then the whole thing headed for a pint together.mchale and mcstay were 2 legends.also ballina were involved in the highest attended bball game ever in dungannon-almost 900 ppl which was an unbelievable amount for a gaelic/soccer town

was probably timmys bar, the atmosphere in that pub after a match was unreal great days

[stephenite]

Bump

[Gold]

yeah, hope u's get stayin in the nothern conference.

Watched many battles between Star and Ballina back in the day. McHale and McStay were class acts.

What do you make of Jordanstown's chances in the Superleague this year?? Their first game is against Star will be worth watchin

Whay level are Dungannon playin at now?