December | 2008 | Irish Tug of War

Fermoy take both Munster titles

Posted on December 19, 2008 by itowa

The second round of the Munster Indoor Championship took place on Friday night last at Ballyduff, Co. Waterford. See report below thanks to Pat Lee. There were two 5-a-side weight categories contested on the night, 450kg & catchweight.

Ballyhooley, Munster Championship

Four teams competed in the 450kg event, Ballyhooley A & B, Glenhill & Fermoy. Ballyhooley A and Fermoy qualified for the final. Fermoy’s experience won out in the end to take the title. The winning Fermoy team were D O’Flynn, J Rice, C Twomey, E Hales, A Needham and coach T Ahern. Six teams competed in the catchweight competition, Ballyhooley A & B, Glenhill, Cappoquin, Fermoy, and the Harps. After some tuff pulling the semi final line-up was Cappoquin versus Glenhill and Fermoy versus Ballyhooley A. The teams who qualified for the final were Glenhill and Fermoy. This was an excellent final with two heavyweights doing battle.

Fermoy, catchweight winners

Once again Fermoy proved the more experienced team and despite Glenhill’s strong performance in both ends it was Fermoy who took the catchweight title, their second title of the evening. The winning Fermoy team were, D O’Flynn, J Rice, E Hales, A Neefham, T Ahern, coach was C Twomey. The judge on the night was Michael Carroll, scorekeeper and controller were Pat Lee & Denis Dunlea. Michael Carroll, President of the Munster Board presented the medals. The next Munster meeting will take place on Friday night the 23rd of January at the same venue and the weights to be contested are 425kg & catchweight 5-a-side. A charity fundraising pull is being organised by the Fermoy club for Friday night the 9th January in Fermoy, a venue is yet to be decided.

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Leo’s Boys open competition

Posted on December 16, 2008 by itowa

Loe’s Boys Tug of War club are running an open competition on Saturday the 3rd of January at Rob-Lew Engineering, Ballygawley, Co. Tyrone (beside the Ballygawley roundabout). The competition weights are 600kg & 680kg senior and 6-a-side novice. The weigh-in is from 1pm – 2pm. All teams are welcome.

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Primary Schools final

Posted on December 13, 2008 by itowa

The final of the Dublin Primary Schools U12′s Tug of War took place at Santry Stadium on Wednesday the 15th of October.

St Mary's BNS, Dublin Primary Schools winners

St Mary’s (1) versus St Mary’s (2) in the first semi final saw St Mary’s (2) progress to the final. In the second semi final St Malachy’s (1) defeated St Malachy’s (2) in a very close contest. The final was the best of three pulls, St Mary’s (2) defeated St Malachy’s (1) by two straight pulls. Dublin U12 Primary Schools Tug of War champions St Mary’s (2) were Conor Coyne, James O’Connor, Liam Flaherty, Leon Dixon, Andrew Keenan, Conor Dunne, Daniel Martin & Shane Doyle (anchorman). All of the participants were presented with their medals at the end of a very eventful day at Santry

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Munster Indoor Championship

Posted on December 11, 2008 by itowa

Glenhill, winners of the Munster 5-a-side catchweight

The first round of the Munster Indoor Championship took palce on Friday night the 28th of November at Ballyduff Upper, Sports Hall, Co. Waterford. The teams who competed were Ballyhooley, Cappoquin, Glenhill & Fermoy. Glenhill and Cappoquin qualified for the final of the 5-a-side catchweight competition. Glenhill won the contest by two ends to nill.

Cppoquin, runners-up of the 5-a-side munster catchweight

Ballyhooley dominated the 400kg 5-a-side competition with both their teams qualifing for the final. Ballyhooley A defeated Ballyhooley B to take the title. The second round of the Munster Championship takes place tomorrow night the 12th of December also at Ballyduff Upper, Sports Hall, Co. Waterford. The weights to be contested are 450kg 5-a-side and catchweight 5-a-side.

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Bremore continue fine form at Indoors

Posted on December 8, 2008 by itowa

The second round of the national indoor championship took place yesterday in St. Bridgets hall Clonmany Co. Donegal. The clubs who competed were Clonmany, Bremore, St. Pats, Gortletteragh, Carndonagh, Cockhill, Dungloe, Sportsmen and Urnaidhe.

Bremore, national 375kg 5-a-side champions

Ten teams took part in the 375kg senior 5-a-side championship. The competition was run in one group with only two teams progressing to the final. There were some good even contests in this competition with new Donegal teams Dungloe and Cockhill producing some fine performances. However it was the Bremore team from Dublin who continued thier outstanding form from day one in Louth as both their teams finished in the top two positons thus qualifing for the final. Gortletteragh and Cockhill finished joint third. Bremore A defeated Bremore B to win the gold medals and the national title at 375kg.

St. Pats, natioal 375kg 5-a-side novice champions

The championship saw the introduction of the novice competition at indoor level and the competition proved to be a great success and an opportinity for the up and coming pullers to compete at national level. St. Pats and Bremore novice teams qualified for the final with local team Dungloe just missing out in third place. The final was an exciting contest but it was the St. Pats lads who produced a fine display to win the ntional novice title.

Bremore, national 640kg champions

The teams who qualified for the semi finals of the senior 640kg competition were Bremore, Gortletteragh, St. Pats and the reigning world champions at this weight, Clonmany B. Bremore defeated Gortletteragh in the first semi final while Clonmany B defeated St. Pats to set up a mouth watering finale. The final was an excellent contest with a great atmosphere in St. Brigits hall for the showdown. Despite Clonmany’s gutsy performance the world champions fell to the sword of the mighty Bremore team who won thier fourth national title from four championships at senior level. Gortletteragh defeated St. Pats to win the bronze medals.

Urnaidhe, U19 375kg 5-a-side runners-up

Three teams took part in the U19 375kg competition. St. Pats and Urnaidhe from Co. Carlow qualified for the final with Cockhill the local team just missing out. St. Pats proved a little too strong for Urnaidhe to take the title but the Carlow lads were nonetheless delighted with heir first ever national medal.

St. Pats, national U23 375kg 5-a-side champions

The two teams who qualified for the final of the U23 375kg competition were Bremore and St. Pats which was a repeat of the 425kg final a fortnight ago in Louth. Yet again it was the young team of St. Pats who produced the goods to win the national title, the clubs fourth gold medal of the day. The national championships will finish up in Cooley Co. Louth on the 18th of Janurary, where the 600kg & 680kg senior titles are up for grabs. The question is can anyone stop Bremore from making it a clean sweep of national senior titles.

Full results from yesterday’s championships in Clonmany can be found on our results page

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UK Indoor Championship 2009

Posted on December 4, 2008 by itowa

Further details of the UK Indoor Championships which take place in Ballymena Co. Antrim on Friday 13th and Saturday 14th February 2009 can now be found on our fixtures page

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