Selections for the European Youth Championships, Bratislava, Slovakia, 7.7.'00 - 16.7.'00
Cadet Boys: C.Nolan, J.McCarthy. NPC R.Butler.
Junior Boys: C.Byrne, D.Smith, M.White. NPC A.Brett.
For more information on the event click HERE

Selections for the British Schools Invitation International on the Isle of Man.30 June - 2nd July
Under 14 Girls A: Rachael O' Connor, Rebecca Lord. NPCpt: Theresa Delvaney
Under 14 Boys A: Jonathan McCarthy, Conor Nolan. NPCpt: John O'Donoghue
Under 14 Boys B: Andrew Boland, Sean Givernaud. NPCpt: John O'Donoghue
Under 16 Boys A: Gary Noonan, David McNeill. NPCpt: Peter Neilsson
Under 16 Boys B: Colin Byrne, Dane Smith, Paul Twomey. NPCpt: Peter Neilsson
Under 16 Girls A: Linda O' Sullivan, Sabrina Conway. NPCpt: Owen Kelly
Under 18 Girls A: Noelle Lennon, Louise Long. NPCpt: Owen Kelly
Under 18 Boys A: Eoin Byrne, Mark White. NPCpt: Con Higgins
Under 18 Boys B: David O'Rourke, Thomas Conroy. NPCpt: Con Higgins

The Selections for the Veterans Teams have been announced.
Over 40: T.Dolan, T.McCaffrey, K.Sabir, T.Devaney, C.Lokko. Over 50: R.Coates, O.Adamson, M.McNeill. Over 60: U.Watson, O.Coates, D.Taylor.

Tommy Fitzgerald Table Tennis - New STIGA distributor.(STIGA Press Article)
"Tommy Fitzgerald is the new exclusive distributor for Ireland. We hope that with Mr.Fitzgerald's help and STIGA's excellent products, we can take market shares and expand the STIGA business in Ireland. Recently Mr. Fitzgerald went with a team from Ireland (Glen Ivory, Derek Coleman and Shane Dolan.)to a Table Tennis festival in Karlsborg, Sweden."

British Primary Schools..Wales 29th April News by Tommy Fitzgerald
The first reports from the Primary Schools have come in. Chris O'Brien put in a very strong performance and will begin the second day as a top seed. The Irish Team finished 2nd in the team event, more on this as it comes in. The girls struggled against a very strong English team loosing 10-0, they put in a good performance against the Welsh loosing 7-3. There was a very close contest against the Scots which finished all square at 5-5.

European Team Championship Results


For all the Irish results and final team placings go to Euro Results

Report by John O'Donoghue:
Success for Ireland at Home Countries Conor Nolan conjured up his biggest win ever when he beat Johnny McCarthy in the cadet Home Countries individual final in Scotland on Thursday.he won the thrilling all-irish final 9-21 21-14 21-12. Other Irish success came when Jean O'Sullivan got to the junior girls final where she lost in three sets to Hannah Yardy of England.
The team event were a bit disappointing with none of the Irish teams firing on all cylinders.The cadet boys were a little unlucky to lose a count back in their group.having beaten Scotland 3-2 ,they lost a very close match to Wales but failed on the countback when Scotland beat wales.the cadet girls lost out in a similar way beating Scotland but losing to wales.
Although Linda O'Sullivan played well in the team event the junior girls were unable to overcome strong opposition.the junior boys had a similar story. In the singles however everyone played better Colin Byrne won the consolation event in a hotly contested junior boys event won eventually by Peter Cleminson of England. Jean was unlucky not to win in two before going down in three. Rebecca Lord was beaten in the consolation final Johnny McCarthy was excellent in the earlier rounds with exiting wins over Liam Thomas of Wales 19 in the third and Nicol Craig of Scotland in the quarters 21-13 20-22 21-13. Craig,the Scotish no 1,had beaten Sean Givernaud in the previous round 21-12 19-21 21-14.in the semis Johnny beat England no 4 cadet Tim Yarnell in three sets 12 in the third. Conor had already beaten English no 2 u-12 Adam Bleakly 19,17 but when he came to the q-fs he didn't seem to have much chance since he had lost to Stephen Gertsen Welsh no1 -7-8 the previous day. he produced an inspired preformanceto win 21-18 15-21 21-15 to reach the final. All in all a very enjoyable and successfull event.

Report by B.Fitzgerald:
The Junior Interprovincial Table Tennis Championships played in Cork on Saturday were dominated by teams from Leinster and Munster who shared the 6 titles available evenly between them.