The results of the Championships of Ireland are as follows:

Singles Championship of Ireland
Winner:       Simon Williams
Runner Up: Patsy Fitzgerald

Doubles Championships
Winner:          Simon Williams & Jack Clingan
Runners Up:  Danny Johnston & Fiachre Carroll

Handicap Singles
Winner:       Tony Carey
Runner Up: Nathaniel Healy

The following have been selected to play for CAI against the CA at Carrickmines on 20/21 August next:-

• Danny Johnston (C)
• Evan Newell
• Sandy Greig
• Gerard Osborne Burke
• Daniel Bennett
• Alan Looney.
• Sub:- Fiacra Carroll

There were emotional scenes on the lawns of Newcastle as Evan Newell, on long odds, won the South Leinster Open Championship, tied on 5 wins with Danny Johnston but with superior hoop points (65 to 63!).

This year's match between CAI and SCA for the Appleton Trophy (easily the  most handsome trophy on the croquet circuit) was played at the Meadows CC in Edinburgh last weekend. Ireland was the holder but was quickly under pressure as the Scots won all three doubles games on Saturday morning and kept up the pressure during the afternoon, so that at the end of play SCA had a 13 -5 lead. The only  Irish player with something to celebrate was Jane Morrison, who beat her husband, Campbell, in their singles game.

We have been given a little history piece written by Dr. Christine Kinealy. She is a professor at Quinnipiac University in New York. Her field of study is the Irish Famine. She was so taken by our costumed games during the Irish Famine Summer School that she researched the history of croquet. The article is complimentary to the History item by Clive Martin & Simon Williams under the History Tab. Two pictures of her time in Strokestown are included. Christine is in the beige outfit, trying her strike. Read it here.

Members of the CAI are invited to attend the Annual General meeting which will take place on Monday July 18th at 7.30 pm in Carrickmines Croquet and Lawn Tennis club. Light refreshments will be served.

Members will receive a formal notice via their club secretaries in the coming days. If you do not receive notification, copies of the material sent with the notice (including the 2015 accounts and a data protection notice) can be obtained by e-mailing Daniel Johnston, the secretary of the CAI, at dannyjohnston@outlook.ie.

The 2016 Home Internationals were contested by England, Ireland Scotland and Wales in Compton, Sussex on the 18 and 19th of June. Teams of 5 compete against every other nation over two days in an all singles format.

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