Congratulations Niamh!

The club wishes to send congratulations to Niamh, Shane, Conor and Mark on the latest arrival to the Caslin household, little Emma.

Niamh is a long-standing member of the club and we're all delighted to hear her fantastic news.... Congratulations!

Loughglynn Badminton Open - Sunday 15th Nov 09

Boyle Badminton Club was very well represented yesterday at the Loughglynn Badminton Open where fourteen of our members competed in Singles, Doubles and Mixed Competition, they were Padraic O Dowd, Sean Carroll, Ruth O Hart, Berni Lavin, Geraldine Guckian, Liz O Dowd, Tracey Sheridan, Padraig Sheridan, Derek Nolan, Anthony McKeon, Tom Cox, Seamus Ryan, Deirdre Burke & Sean Diffley.

In Mens Singles, Sean Carroll competed very well coming in second in the Advanced Grade, Padraic O Dowd and Sean won the Mens Doubles competition in Advanced and Berni Lavin and Ruth O Hart won the Advanced Ladies Doubles Competition.

The Doubles Competition was run in a Round Robin format and all of the Boyle pairings did very well throughout. Tom Cox and Seamus Ryan were runners up in the Intermediate Doubles Mens Final and Sean Diffley and Padraig Sheridan won the third place playoff in the same grade.

The Mixed Doubles was a knock-out format, one game to 30 points, and again all of our players had very close matches with one more success for Boyle in the Final as Padraic and Berni won out the Mixed Doubles.

Thank you to Loughglynn for hosting the competition and looking after us all so well, we had a great day with high spirits both on and off the court!

Another great night!!

We had another fantastic night for the badminton club last night and not a racquet or a shuttle in sight! It was our table quiz in the Moving Stairs where we were hoping to raise funds towards updating the lighting in the sports complex.

Thanks to an amazing job by our quizmaster Mandy who had put together a very fair and challenging quiz everyone had a great night and we finished up with just over €700 raised, more than any of us expected.

Thank you very much to Donal for donating his time in helping myself and Mandy with correcting and score-keeping.

There were 15 tables involved through 10 rounds and it finished up in an exciting tie-break between the top two teams. We'd like to acknowledge the donation made by the winning team of their prize-money and other prizes, which had been sponsored by local businesses, won during the raffle were also donated back so thank you very much to everyone for your generosity.

Once again thank you to all of our members for unfailing support and making it a great success.
Nights like this can only be achieved when everyone is of same mind and pulling together.... so well done!

Reminder - Table Quiz

Don't forget the club's Table Quiz which is on Friday night, 6th November, in the Moving Stairs, Boyle at 9pm. Entry for a table of four is €20 with raffle and spot prizes on the night.

All proceeds will go towards the lighting fund for the sports complex.

We are asking all of our members to come and support it and do please encourage anyone who may be interested in table quizes to come along, it promises to be a great night!

Junior Open Session

We finished off National Badminton Week with an Open Session for Junior players at Boyle Sports Complex this evening. Again, like our Senior Open Session, it was better than we could have imagined. There were nearly twenty young people who enjoyed some fun racquet exercises and games led by the Club Captain, Padraic O Dowd along with the assistance of some of our Senior members. They enjoyed some treats to finish up after working very hard for the full hour.

The grown ups who attended also enjoyed some treats!!

This session was very encouraging as the start of our Junior Club which will now continue every Sunday evening from 6 - 7pm.