88th Post...BBC outreach....

 


B.B.C.  v  St Anne's

Our inaugural event involving friendly inter-group competition took place yesterday Sunday 8th August.

The eight best placed players from our recent Singles Matchplay represented the B.B.C. from Alden Park.  A selection of eight players from St. Anne's Wednesday Group were invited to play against us.  

The weather held out and we had a lovely couple of hours play.  We split into pairs and, on this occasion, we played three games on the same Piste against the same pairing.  

Ciaran has produced a great graphic of the results below.  On this occasion we had the upper-hand.  We hope that occasionally we will have some further interplay between the Boules Groups at both venues and involving different players.  As an initial foray this was a great success.   Our thanks to the spectators who added to the occasion.










Group A Competition:

The Tom Walsh Memorial Trophy is still in Tom Donnellan's possession as Covid-19 intervened.  The engraving plate was created in advance of the Pandemic with the dates already entered.  We could not anticipate how a mutating virus was going to effect the entire world.  The additional inscriptions on the trophy will remind players of this unprecedented hiatus in the early life of this community sports group.
The final day's play was deferred to next Monday 16th as the forecast was for rain across the period this morning.





The Open Doubles in Bushy Park due last Saturday was cancelled because of the rainfall forecast.

All-Ireland Singles Qualifiers:

This table [ courtesy of the I.P.A. ] is a 'who's who' of aspiring players on this island.  Ciaran is going to test the waters in his first outing from Alden Park.  The group will be split and Ciaran will be playing next Saturday 14th in Bushy Park in a qualifier for the finals at a later date.  We wish him well and commend his courage in testing the waters.  As you can see from the graphic many nationalities and provinces are represented [ except Connaught!]



Comments

  1. Tom Donnellan9 August 2021 at 23:54

    Apologies as to the strange appearance of the IPA table. It reads vertically, if you have the patience, and Ciaran features at the end. It looks better on the web version.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

127th Post: 2024 - The Year of Bayside Boules

Image
Some of the Committee will be meeting an officer of Fingal, Janette Scott in early January  with a view to gleaning advice and support for the future development of Bayside Boules.  Monday Competition: This is the penultimate table with Ciarán in the lead.  Chris could technically have stolen the title had he been able to play on the final Monday and Ciarán was to lose all his games.  Unfortunately, he was unable to play and Ciarán won on merit anyway on the final Monday.   He also beat Tom Buckley's record of 20 'Thirteens' in a competition.  He retains the trophy which we will present formally at the first session of the next round of competition.  Congratulations Ciarán!! Unusually we didn't lose any Monday to inclement weather.  Also, we wish Joan all the best with her continuing recovery and will be delighted to see her back in action in 2024.  All the best to any other of pour members who are indisposed over this Christmas. Christmas Triples Competition: Ciarán or
Read more

130th Post - Officially now Bayside Boules Club

Image
Condolences :  BBC has offered the condolences of the Club to the O'Callaghan family on the sad loss of Clodagh who with her husband, Andy, played with the original players before her illness struck.  Many of our players knew her personally and our Monday session has been cancelled as a mark of respect. R.I.P. Clodagh. IGM:  Our Inaugural Annual General Meeting was held on Saturday 2nd March at 7pm in the Bayside Community Centre.  The outgoing ad-hoc committee [ Tom D, Ciarán, Agnes, charlie O'D, Eileen D, Chris G, Nigel, John O'C, Tom B ]  put a lot of work since late 2019 to date and for the organisation of this meeting and were delighted with the positive response and turn out.  In order to avail of an supports offered by Fingal Public Participation Network [ Fingal PPN].  All attendees had paid the €20 subscription to the new Bayside Community Club which included the membership of the Irish Petanque Association [IPA] and their insurance cover.  Any players wishing to p
Read more

124th Post: The Ladies are closing in.....

Image
  Monday Competition Group A: Ciarán won the third quarter Singles Monday Competition 2023.  Congratulations Ciarán. Tom Buckley the previous winner, who incidentally has the record of 20 x 13s in a single league in the last iteration,  presented Ciarán with the trophy before play today in the first game of the new Competition.  While Ciarán won the competition he noted that Agnes was 2nd; Maureen 3rd and Mary was 4th.  The ladies are truly closing in........ Fourteen played today in dull but dry conditions.  All played with three boules each with one singles match each time frame.  More people are 'shooting' now which will improve our standards going forward. The weather may have been dull but the play certainly wasn't ! Bayside Community Day: Bayside Community Association invited the voluntary community groups to showcase and advertise their activities on Sunday 1st October in the Community Centre.  Our thanks to Joan Maher, Larry Breheny, Ciarán Walsh, Gertie Gilbert, Ma
Read more