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This family fun day out will remember Jimmy and Anne Moran and will take place tomorrow, February 7, from 1pm to 4pm in Scoil Padraig, Market Square, Ballina. The event will then move to Ballina Sports and Leisure Centre at 5.30pm, where there will be a legends basketball exhibition game. The event will wrap up in Ballina Rugby Club where there will be a celebration of music from 9pm. All donations and proceeds will go to Cancer Care West, Ballina Order of Malta, and Scoil Padraig, Ballina.

Ballina

There were great scenes of celebration at Athenry on Sunday as Mayo AC's National Half Marathon team had huge success winning medals in three team categories and eight individual medals. The club brought a record 31 runners to the race and 13 of them came home with medals - a great result. For once AAI came up with the results on the day and a delighted Michael McGrath was able to present most of the booty at the team's HQ.

Mayo Sports Partnership is hosting a three hour workshop titled Code of Ethics and Best Practice in Sport in Ballina on Tuesday October 18.

Matt Bidwell and Mary Gleeson further underlined their status as leading runners in this year's Mayo AC Road League on Saturday in Claremorris. It was the 10th running of the De Care Dental sponsored 'Sport a Smile' five mile event and brought a fun atmosphere to the town centre with puppet shows, face painting, music etc. It also served as a focus for Mayo Cancer Support through participants and street collections.

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Loftus Recycling secured two valuable points in the National Basketball League Division one when they overcame Bord Gáis Neptune (Cork) in an entertaining game in Ballina Sports and Leisure Centre on Saturday night.

Funding of €650,000 has been approved up to 2013 to employ people on a full-time basis in 11 Mayo community based projects including Community Radio Castlebar and Claremorris Community Radio,

Basketball

The new basketball season gets under way on Saturday night in Ballina Sports and Leisure Centre (tip-off 7.30pm) when the home team, Loftus Recycling, host Blue Demons, Cork, in the opening round of division one in the National Basketball League. The Ballina side also have their second and third round fixtures at home as they entertain Garvey’s St Mary’s (Tralee) on Saturday week, October 9, and Ballon (Carlow) the following Saturday night, October 16.