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Irish Masters 2009 launched

The competition dates and the draws for two divisions of The Irish masters has been announced.

The full details may be downloaded  here

Redmond Holloway 1923 – 2009

None of us who knew Redmond could ever believe his age -- he would have been 86 this April -- and how could we when he looked and behaved like a much younger man.

CAI team for Carter Thophy Florida 2009

The Irish team selected to play against the USA in next years Carter Trophy are:

Andrew Johnston
Ed Cunningham
Gerard Healy
Evan Newell
Nathaniel Healy
Conor Broderick

This event will take place at the 12-lawn complex of the National Croquet Centre in West Palm Beach, Florida between May 3-6, just preceeding the World Championships at the same venue the following week. This will be the sixth encounter for the Carter Trophy, named in honour of former President of the USCA Foxy Carter.

New School’s League

On Friday October, Wesley College played East Glendalough School in the first match of the new CAI School’s League. EGS Transition year students travelled to meet their opposite numbers at Wesley. The match was a competitive, but good-natured affair, with Wesley winning convincingly by a score of nine games to three.

Croquet is currently being played in three schools, St. Columba’s College being the third. These three, along with Carrickmines juniors, will comprise the new league. Each group will play each of the others in a home or away format similar to that used in six nations’ rugby.

Carrickmines 5 - Trinity 0

It was a convincing Carrickmines victory on a late summer afternoon at Carrickmines. Not even the vocal support of alumnus Simon Williams could spur on the Trinity team and Jane & Michael beat Kieran & Danny in 4 singles games. David McGrath completed the match with a good win over Daniel Isemann in an epic level play match.

2008 Irish Golf Championship Results

There were 19 entries for the 12th Irish Golf Croquet Championships, which was held at carrickmines thanks to the generosity of the Club.  Block play  - 4 blocks of 4/5 were completed on a sunny(!)  Saturday by lunch time, with the top 2 from each block going through to the quarter finals and others playing doubles for the Plate.
The Quarter finals were
Patsy Fitzgerald v Danny Johnston
Simon Williams v Derek Old (an English visitor)
Ben Harris v Robert Barklie
Ed Cunningham v Andrew Johnston.
After  tough best of 5 trials Patsy, Derek, Ed and Robert were the winners, with Simon and the N

GB v Ireland croquet results - News from Scotland

Great Britain beat Ireland by 12 matches to 2 (with one unfinished) in the annual test match held at Meadows West on 30-31 August 2008.  This event saw the first presentation of the salver donated by David Maugham, in memory of his father Ian, as the trophy for the match.  Keith Aiton received the champagne given by Chris Dent for the first standard sextuple peel completed on Scottish soil.

GB v Ireland croquet results - News from Scotland

Great Britain beat Ireland by 12 matches to 2 (with one unfinished) in the annual test match held at Meadows West on 30-31 August 2008.  This event saw the first presentation of the salver donated by David Maugham, in memory of his father Ian, as the trophy for the match.  Keith Aiton received the champagne given by Chris Dent for the first standard sextuple peel completed on Scottish soil.