New Season to Commence...

The Club will resume play on Monday 7th September at 9.30pm in Boyle Sports Complex. Club nights will remain Mondays from 9.30pm - 11.30pm and Thursdays from 9pm to 11pm.

New members will be very welcome and we're hoping to be able to offer some coaching to anyone who would like to learn the basics or refreshers for those who haven't taken up their racquets for some time!

Looking forward to seeing all the familiar faces and hopefully some new ones too!

Boyle Summer Show - Sunday 30th August

Boyle Badminton Club is participating in the parade in the Boyle Summer Show on Sunday 30th August and it would be great to have the support and attendance of as many members and interested parties as possible.

We will meet at 1.30pm at the Family Life Centre on the day and if you have a club shirt please wear it otherwise a plain white polo shirt will be grand!

We look forward to seeing you there, lets show everyone what a great club we are all a part of!

Anyone got old badminton pics?

We're trying to put together a bit of a photographic archive of Boyle Badminton Club over the past few years, we have plenty of current pictures but hardly any going back over the years so if anyone has any photographs we could get a copy of please contact us by email on boylebadminton@gmail.com.

Thank you!

The Moving Stairs - June 5th 2009

There was a great attendance as the club descended on The Moving Stairs in Boyle last Friday night to mark the end of a very memorable season. We had a fantastic night of food, drink, chat and craic.

A very nice three course meal was followed by some presentations by Padraic, the Club Captain.

Ruth O'Hart received the award for Division 3, Seamus Ryan for Division 5 and Geraldine Guckian for Division 6. A special prize for Best Smash 2009 was awarded to Padraig Sheridan but unfortunately Padraig wasn't able to be there to accept the award so Liz, his mixed doubles partner, did so on his behalf. As Sean, incoming Club Chairperson, commented, with such a gang of players next year can only get better - we can't wait!

By all reports many club members continued flying the flag well into the early hours, a great end to a great season.

Last night of play 08/09 season

Our club season came to a close last night with a great turnout. We had a very productive and positive meeting about how we all want to see the club progress and it was fantastic that some of our newest members felt comfortable enough to share their thoughts and some really great ideas with everyone.

It bodes very well for the coming year and hopefully we can encourage some more new players to pick up their racquets and join us!

So thanks everyone for the effort and enthusiasm shown in this past season and we look forward to an even better one to come!

All Ireland Finals Sunday 17th May 09 - Part II

Division 3 travelled to Dublin to play in the All-Ireland Finals in Baldoyle Badminton Centre yesterday along with a happy bunch of vociferous supporters.

The first round was played in the morning against the Leinster Division 3 qualifiers, Rahan from Offaly, and Boyle, in flying form, took that match 6 - 1. There was a bit of a break then until facing the Munster qualifiers from Carrigaline in Cork at about 3.45pm. This proved a much tougher encounter with a lot of the games being very close and it ultimately came down to the very last set which was lost by only two points. Of course if the usual method of scoring in a Round Robin competition had been used, Boyle would have been way ahead in sets and crowned All-Ireland champions, as they deserved to have been! C'est la vie!

Such an amount of hard work and training had gone in to prepare for the final, it seems very cruel to have come so close and have it snatched away at the very last but hopefully when they get a chance to mull it over, despite being very disappointed, the team will be extremely proud to walk away with All-Ireland Silver in Division 3. Congratulations to all.

No mean feat for our little club from Boyle in Roscommon! Onwards and upwards!!