Sophie O’Rourke and Amelia Korhonen before their Ladies RR playoff.
Seán Conroy and Brian Byrne before their Final.
We were treated to a feast of squash from some of the country’s best at Highfield and Sunday’s Well. Brian Byrne (Carlow) and Sophie O’Rourke (Highfield) were the winners in the A sections but you can find the full results here.
Don’t forget to check the current Sports Capital Grant announcement last week byThe Department of Transport, Tourism, and Sport, this is a great opportunity for Squash Clubs to improve their facilities and Courts, a number of Munster Clubs have availed of this grant in previous years. The grant is open now and has a deadline of October 19th, 2018 more information available here
Entries are open for this years Killarney Open, you can submit your entry through Tournament Software, link available here. Contact Maciej Truchan on 0877954729 or truchanoo@wp.pl for more information as some sections are fully booked up.
The Munster Leagues are Back for a new season, if your club would like to enter 1 or more teams into the leagues can you please email Conor O’Neill at with the teams (we don’t need names for the moment, we only need to know if your club is putting a team into the league)
The current plan is to run divisions 1 to 6 like last year, we plan on running divisions 1, 3 and 5 before Christmas then starting divisions 2, 4 and 6 after Christmas, the format of each league will depend on the number of teams in each division. If you have any questions please contact Conor.
Check League Divisions here to make sure your club is in the correct division
League rules are available here
John Hurley (Sunday’s Well – Captain), Nick Staunton (Qualified through grandparent from Tipperary), Karl McLoughney (Thurles). Sophie O’Rourke (Highfield), Paul O’Mahony (Highfield).
Men’s O55 Champions at the Masters Interpros 2018
Munster won the Men’s Over 55, and the Ladies’.
Photo Caption: (L-R) Kevin Quinlan(Coach), Philip McSweeney, Donnagh Crowley, Paul O’Mahony(Captain), Barry Lynch, Karl McLoughney, Maciej Truchan(inset).
UCC are the 2017/18 Munster Squash senior league champions having defeated Celtic (Waterford) 3/2 in the final fixture. Celtic were the defending champions and were chasing three in a row league titles but the students’ win in the final fixture preserved their unbeaten league season and gave them a deserved title. Key moments along the way included a very tight away win to Celtic at the beginning of the year, as well as two strong performances against a determined Sunday’s Well.
The UCC team featured former junior internationals as well as strong performers at Munster level. Team members were Philip McSweeney(Highfield), Barry Lynch(Highfield), Paul O’Mahony(Captain, Highfield), Donnagh Crowley(Gleneagle), Maciej Truchan (Gleneagle) and Karl McLoughney (Thurles).
This was an outstanding result for a young UCC team who were very focused and committed throughout the entire league campaign. The result is also a huge boost for UCC Squash Club which is thriving at present and had teams competing in other divisions of the Munster Squash leagues, as well as a successful run in the recent intervarsities competition, hosted in UCC.
6th Place for Sophie in European Junior U19 Individual Championships 2018
Munster Squash are very proud of Sophie and her achievements to date, with her latest achievement being that she finished in 6th place of the European Junior U19 Individual Championships, which took place in Poland 24-27th March.
Sophie is currently still in Poland representing Ireland while taking part in the U19 European team event. Best of luck to Sophie in the remainder of her matches representing Ireland.
| Highfield | 4 | - | 18 | Thurles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sophie O'Rourke | 0 | - | 3 | Stephen O'Dwyer |
| Aidan McDonnell | 0 | - | 3 | Karl McLoughney |
| Kevin O'Rourke | 3 | - | 2 | John O'Donnell |
| John Dineen (ret inj) | 0 | - | 3 | Kevin Moloney |
| Michael Ryan | 1 | - | 3 | Darragh O'Donnell |
