Nifty250 June 2: Ballina couple aboard Irish aid ship nearing Gaza; Mayo Ladies Board rejects re-entering team

Ballina couple aboard Irish aid ship nearing Gaza

Ballina couple Derek and Jenny Graham are among the passengers on the Irish owned MV Rachel Corrie ship which continues en route to Gaza with humanitarian supplies. There are fifteen people on board the vessel, including five Irish citizens.
Israel raided some boats on the Gaza bound aid flotilla on Monday but the MV Rachel Corrie escaped.
The Israeli Government say that their sea blockage of the Palestinian territory at Gaza would continue, despite international pressure to remove it.
The Israelis also say that 679 of those detained on Monday, including several Irish citizens, will be deported within 48 hours. However about fifty more will be held for questioning.



Mayo Ladies Championship participation looks increasingly doubtful

Mayo’s participation in the All-Ireland Senior Ladies Football Championship now looks very doubtful after County Board delegates upheld an earlier decision to withdraw from the competition at a meeting on Monday night.
Mayo Ladies County Board issued a statement yesterday (Tuesday) saying that at Monday’s meeting “The executive asked delegates, on behalf of the senior panel, to reconsider the decision of the previous meeting: to withdraw from the TG4 Senior Championship of 2010. Delegates voted 28 to 9 to uphold the earlier decision. It was also decided to invite an Independent Committee, made up of Cumann Peil Gael na mBan Management, to examine the situation within Mayo and to report back to the County Board by September 2010.”
This followed a meeting between the County Board executive and players held last Friday. Pat Costello resigned as Mayo manager in April and said he had been ‘constantly undermined by certain players’.
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