Ballina Costume Company

24/08/2026

✨ Great News — We’re Back to Normal! ✨

A huge thank you to everyone for your amazing patience and understanding over the last few weeks 🙏

We’ve now fully caught up on our backlog of alterations and school uniforms — and we’re delighted to say we are now accepting all alterations again as normal! 🎉

We really appreciate your kindness and support while we worked through the busy school uniform period. Thank you so much for bearing with us 💛

Pop in anytime — we’re ready to help! ✂️

14/08/2026

📢 Important Update Regarding Alteration Services

We would like to advise our valued customers that we are currently unable to accept any new alteration requests, as we are fully occupied with school uniform orders ahead of the new school term. With schools reopening at the end of this month, ensuring uniforms are ready and properly fitted is our top priority at this time.

We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. In the event of an urgent alteration required for a funeral or similar emergency, please speak to us directly — we will always do our very best to accommodate you where we can.

We are working as quickly and carefully as possible to get through this high volume of work. We understand that starting a new school year can be stressful enough, and we want to help ease that pressure by making sure every uniform is ready and fits perfectly.

We are so grateful to each and every one of you for your continued business, kindness and support — thank you. As soon as we have caught up on our current workload, we will be resuming our full alteration service as normal. We truly appreciate your understanding and patience.

Thank you. 🙏
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12/08/2026

Costume Hire! 🕴👑🌺🎩👘👗👬👨🏼‍🎨🎤👋
Ballina Costume Company stock thousands of costumes for theatre, drama, historical events, weddings, school events. Browse through our website to view the costumes that might suit your event or give us a all on 096072154. Based in Ballina, Co Mayo, we can distribute costumes for hire anywhere in Ireland.
https://www.ballinacostumecompany.ie/
Músaem Uí Chléirigh Stair na hÉireann The Clarke Museum of Irish History Bonniconlon Drama Society Ch7HD Drama Society Sligo Youth Theatre Riverside Theatre Group The Ogden Theatre St. Patrick's Parade, Castlebar. Ballina Home to Mayo 2024 Enniscrone Killala Past and Present

Quality Hand-Made Costumes for Hire. We stock 1000s of costumes in our Ballina warehouse. Rental fees are set to fit all budgets.

10/08/2026

10/08/2026

🟢🔴 MAYO — ALL IRELAND CHAMPIONS! 🟢🔴

What an historic moment — and what a wonderful time we had celebrating it together! 🎉

Leading up to that incredible All-Ireland win, ending a 75-year wait, the children got fully behind the Green & Red! They loved making cards to congratulate the Mayo team, showing such pride and excitement! 💚❤️

And the highlight of it all — a special tour of the GAA Collection at the Jackie Clarke Collection, where the children got to see the very football used in Mayo’s last All-Ireland win in 1951! 🥹⚽️

They were absolutely fascinated listening to the stories and seeing such a precious piece of history up close — truly a memory they’ll treasure!

A huge thank you to Yvonne and all the staff at the Jackie Clarke Collection for making this wonderful visit possible and for sharing such special history with us! 🙏

📸 Photos from our visit and celebrations below!

10/08/2026

✨ What an Amazing Summer! ✨

We’re finally taking a moment to pause and say a huge THANK YOU — what an incredible summer we’ve had! ☀️

We wrapped up 5 wonderful weeks of camp at the end of July, 4 weeks of camps and a fantastic week of workshops during the festival — and it was absolutely brilliant from start to finish! 💛

The kids threw themselves into everything — creating beautiful crafts, delicious baking, sewing, jewellery making, clay modelling, gardening, slime-making, designing their own hats… honestly, they did it ALL! Their creativity and energy were just wonderful to see. ✂️🎨🧁

A massive thank you to:
✅ Sean Duffy and everyone at Ardnaree Centre
✅ John, Willie & Sean for all your help
✅ Yvonne and the team at the Jackie Clarke Collection — thank you for your constant support, your amazing facilities, and that wonderful tour of the collection which the children absolutely loved! 🙏

And most of all — thank YOU to every parent who trusted us with your children, and to every child who came along and joined in! It was a joy to have you all. 🥰 #🥰 ̇d19

26/07/2026

The 75 year wait is over, what a match, what a team. Well done ❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚❤️💚Up Mayo 💚❤️💚❤️👏👏👏

18/07/2026

📢 REMINDER: Creative Craft Camp – Week 3

Dear Parents/Guardians,

This is a quick reminder that Week 3 of our Creative Craft Camp runs next week:
🗓 Monday 20th – Friday 24th
⏰ 9:30am – 3:00pm daily
📍 Jackie Clarke Collection

💶 Payment: Please bring payment on the first day, in a sealed envelope marked clearly with your child’s full name.

✨ We have a fun-filled week planned with games, sewing, general crafts, gardening and jewellery making!

📝 Please remember to send your child with:

• Packed lunch & drinks for two breaks each day

• Old clothes suitable for messy crafts

• A light jacket (just in case!)

• Sun hat & sun cream if the weather is sunny

We’re really looking forward to seeing everyone – it’s going to be a fantastic week! 😊🌟

14/07/2026

⚠️ NOTICE OF EARLY CLOSING

We will be closing early tomorrow, Wednesday 15th July, at 1:00pm to celebrate Heritage Day as part of the Ballina Salmon Festival.

⏰ Opening hours tomorrow: 9:00am – 1:00pm

We will re-open as usual on Thursday 16th July from 9:00am.

Thank you for your understanding! 🐟✨

13/07/2026

🎩 CREATE YOUR OWN ONE-OF-A-KIND BUCKET HAT! 🎨

Look at what amazing designs we’ve already made — yours could be even more unique! ✨

Let your child’s imagination take over! We supply the plain bucket hat and all the craft gear — they bring the big ideas! Doodle, paint, add stickers, gems, patterns… anything they dream up!

💚❤️ Go bold with Mayo red & green!
🌸 Paint flowers, swirls or Celtic knots like these lovely examples!
🦖 Add dinosaurs, stars, unicorns or whatever makes them grin!

Perfect for this sunny weather — they’ll wear their very own handcrafted hat with so much pride!

📍 Where: Jackie Clarke
Date: Tuesday the 14th July
💶 Cost: €10 per child — includes hat, paints, gems & all supplies!

⏰ Available Sessions:
✅ 10:15am – 11:15am
✅ 11:45am – 12:45pm
✅ 2:00pm – 3:00pm

Spaces fill fast — come get creative and make something totally yours! Tag a little artist who’d love this! 👇
Call 09673508

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