Ballinrobe Musical Society

05/06/2026

Best of luck to all our friends at Abú performing arts on their upcoming performances! Abú Performing Arts

One Night - TWO SHOWS!

Tickets for our End of Year double-header production of Sister Act Jr and Into the Woods Jr are officially on sale at the Claremorris Town Hall Theatre and Concert Hall box office.

We work with our students throughout the year on the building blocks that make a successful performance, and our end of year shows are a chance for them to put that theory into practice. So join us on Saturday 27 June for two fully-staged one-hour productions by our incredibly talented and hard-working Junior and Senior casts.

https://townhall.ie/event/abu-performing-arts-student-production-double-header/

03/06/2026

Thank you to Tesco for supporting us again through their Community Fund! All donations towards our society are greatly appreciated

31/05/2026

30/05/2026

Break a leg to all our friends performing at One Night Only in Tuam tomorrow evening! 🎶

29/05/2026

We have added another legend to our roll of Honorary Life Members – the one and only Tommie Heneghan!

Tommie has been the life and soul of the party in Ballinrobe Musical Society since he joined us as a gasúir back in 1992. Since then, he has sung and danced – brilliantly – in every single show.

In 34 years, Tommie has sailed the Atlantic onboard pirate ships, danced the tango in a fairytale castle, been electrocuted by geriatric inventors, and performed in dozens of choruses and dances.

Not only is Tommie one of life’s gentlemen, but he is also one of the soundest, funniest men you could ever meet. Indeed, any time Tommie walks through the door, you know that the craic is never far away!

Always willing to lend a hand, Tommie has helped build a number of our sets. On several occasions, he has used his own jeep and trailer to transport chairs to and from the school. He also continues to kindly lend us his tractor every year for moving the stage in and out of the school.

Tommie is a proud member of ‘One Direction’, a group of senior members christened many years ago by our choreographer, Aoife McClafferty – who calls Tommie ‘Fabulous’.

Blessed with a fine tenor voice, no man gives a finer rendition of ‘If Tomorrow Never Comes' or ‘The Dance’ than Tommie. Anyone who's heard him sing these songs will say the exact same thing.

Whether he’s dancing the tango or singing Garth Brooks, Tommie is an absolute joy to have around the place.

You have been with us for 34 years Tommie, and we look forward to having you with us for many more years to come.

Because, as Aoife would say, you are Fabulous!

29/05/2026

We were delighted to add our great friend Eugene O’Malley to our roll of honorary life members at our AGM.

Eugene has been a stalwart of Ballinrobe Musical Society for the guts of four decades.

Since making his debut in the early 1980s, Eugene has been part of over 30 Ballinrobe shows, powering our chorus with his booming bass voice alongside many other great men, some of whom have sadly gone to their eternal reward.

Eugene is exactly the kind of man any society would love to have.

As well as being a fine singer, he is affable, good-humoured, unfailingly reliable, and has done as much for the society off-stage as he has on stage. Because no matter what he is asked to do, Eugene does it with a heart and half, always with the best interests of the society.

Over the years, he has poured thousands of cups of tea and coffee from his trusty Burko boiler, which never failed to appear at rehearsals in the week leading up to ‘the show’.

Every year without fail, Eugene’s jeep and trailer are on site good and early to draw the chairs from the school to the racecourse before and after the show. At this stage, you don't even need to ask him – because you know it will be done!

A member of our committee for a number of years, most recently in 2023, Eugene is a card-carrying member of a group of BMS stalwarts affectionately known as ‘One Direction’.

Over the years, Eugene enjoyed manys a good post-show sing-song with his great friends Noel ‘Noeleen’ Ansbro (RIP), Mick Sweeney and Gerry Hughes. Indeed, nobody could sing ‘The Black Hills of Dakota’ or ‘Walk Right Back’ like these guys!

Although he took a step back from the stage this year, Eugene was still suited and booted come show time, courteously ushering people to their seats at our front of house before Frozen.

He hasn’t gone away, you know. Long may that continue to be so.

Thank you, Eugene, for being such a great friend of Ballinrobe.

(Eugene is pictured on the right with our chairman, Richard Crumlish)

28/05/2026

We were honoured to elect our beloved Ger Bailey as our President at our recent AGM.

A lady to her fingertips and a friend to all in Ballinrobe Musical Society, Ger made her stage debut with us in 2005 when she joined our chorus for ‘Ragtime’.

After attending several Ballinrobe shows over the years, Ger initially joined us for just one show.

But what was supposed to be ‘one show’ ended up being 20, starting with Ragtime and ending with Frozen: The Musical.

Ger knew nobody in the society when she joined us in the autumn of 2004. Today, she is known to all associated with Ballinrobe Musical Society, and admired and respected by everyone who has ever shared the stage with her.

Although she is a lady of few words, Ger has always gone out of her way to welcome new cast members, always ensuring they felt the same welcome she did when she first joined the society.

Affectionately known as ‘The Queen’, Ger is a queen without a crown; warm, welcoming, patient, encouraging, caring, she is admired and adored by all.

And although she is definitely not the loudest, Ger never says ‘no’ to a night out with the society and is always the last to leave the pub after a show or social gathering!

Thank you, Ger, for being such a wonderful friend to Ballinrobe Musical Society.

Long live The Queen 👑

28/05/2026

28/05/2026

After a well-attended AGM on a sweltering hot summer's evening, we have elected our committee for the year ahead!

Stay tuned everybody...