The 14th GENSB Games tournament was held on Saturday last at Sursee Switzerland. An 18 strong Irish Youth development squad traveled to compete at the Games as has been the case in recent years. Two Eire Og teams competed as 54 teams entered the competition. Eire Og team 1 performed were well finishing second place [...]
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Forty seven women from eleven clubs attended last Saturday’s Ladies Development session which was held in Corofin, Co. Galway. The clubs represented were, Boyneside, Ballinastoe, Ballinagh, Canavans, Cappoquin, Connemara, Donoughmore, Doyles Corner, Saddlers Inn, Thatch Bar & Renvyle. Click here to see photos from the session (Note: there are two pages of photos).
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Irish clubs, Boyneside and Killoughey as well as Eire Og, the youth development squad traveled to Daventry last weekend where they flew the flag well with a number of fine performances. There were five teams in the youth 560kg competition and Eire Og pulled very well winning the gold medal defeating Gloucester from England in [...]
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We had a great turnout for yesterday’s ladies development /national team trial day. 27 women from five clubs attended, these were, Boyneside, Canavans, Connemara, Tatch Bar & Renvyle. Following Eddie Fitzgerald’s coaching program, we spent approximately 30 minutes doing warm up exercises and tug of war specific drills before Eddie split us all into 3 [...]
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The next youth / U23 development session will be held at the Edenderry Rugby grounds on Saturday evening the 9th of April at 7pm. Contact Gerry for more information of 087 2496915. The 6-a-side youth league which was introduced last year will continue again this year. Click here to see details on the youth league. The top [...]
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The Coaching/Training Development Day held at the Harps Training Grounds in Aghern went very well with a good turnout of clubs & pullers, about 40 attended in total. Gerry Ferguson went through all the training techniques with both Coaches and pullers on several combinations, and Bill Kehoe went through all the movements of moving backwards, holding, and team movement [...]
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Congratulations to the newly elected Ladies Liaison Officer, Ms. Helen Coyne from Co. Offaly. Please find her contact details on the Contacts page. We would like to wish her every success in this role in this exciting time for the development of ladies Tug of War in Ireland. We would also like to congratulate the outgoing Liaison [...]
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The first combined ladies, youth & U23 development day which was held in Edenderry last Sunday was a big success. 24 ladies attended from four different clubs, Boyneside, Tatch Bar, Ballinagh and Canavans. Eddie Fitzgerald took charge of a very productive session. The new Ladies Liaison Officer will be appointed at the AGM on Sunday [...]
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The 13th GENSB games tournament was held yesterday in Raalte, a village in the eastern part of the Netherlands. The Irish development squad pulling under Eire Og were competing in their fifth tournament and performed well improving three places on last year’s ranking to 12th. This was by far their toughest test in their five [...]
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The final training session for the GENSB Games squad will take place this coming Friday the 20th of August at 7pm at Edenderry Rugby club, Edenderry, Co. Offaly.
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