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Gleneagle Squash season launched
Gleneagle Squash Club have announced their 2023/2024 squash competition and training programme, following extensive renovations and improvements during the summer months.
Club competitions are set to take place each month during the squash season, from November until April, and all players are welcome to join.
The first monthly competition of the season is kindly sponsored again by O'Keeffe's Oils Rathmore.
The club has been making great progress with six members now trained as coaches to World Squash Federation Level 1 accreditation; success in national competitions; representation on Irish teams; ladies and junior training and improved facilities which now bring the courts up to a national standard. Club chairman and longtime player Mike Crowley gives credit to the Aquila Club staff and the Gleneagle Hotel for their ongoing support and also extends his thanks to the Department of Community and Rural Development and Kerry County Council for the Community Enhancement Fund award towards the cost of upgrading the courts.
There has been a strong turnout to Ladies’ training each Tuesday evening and Juniors’ Training each Wednesday evening from 6.15-7.00pm, with the first cohort of ladies already actively playing in club leagues and making way for the next round of beginners and returning players. Their ‘drop in and play’ mornings each Saturday from 10am - 1pm are a chance for new, returning and regular players to train and play without commitment each week.
With the welcome news this week that squash is to be an Olympic sport for the first time at LA 2028, the club is as proud as ever of its successes - Donnagh Crowley and Paul O’Brien are proudly representing the club on the Irish international master’s team and in 2023, the club won Division 2 of the Munster Leagues. The club also held the Killarney Open in September, sponsored by Tricel, Torc Engineering and Brendan Counihan Plant Hire. With recent improvements and wins, the club can be more confident of having a positive impact on the health and wellbeing of its community and perhaps, developing a potential Olympian from the Gleneagle Squash Club!
Gneeveguilla apprentice wins national stonemasonry title
Darragh O’Sullivan from Gneeveguilla won the overall prize in the Architectural Stonemasonry category at the WorldSkills Ireland competition held recently at the RDS in Dublin.
An apprentice stonecutter and stonemason with the Office of Public Works (OPW) based in Mallow, O’Sullivan secured gold for his technical accuracy and craftsmanship during the three-day event.
The state agency relies on traditional trade skills to manage, conserve, and restore national monuments, public buildings, and heritage sites across the country.
O’Sullivan’s success reflects the training provided by his OPW mentors and team, highlighting the importance of apprentice development in preserving traditional heritage crafts for future generations.
Picture Caption: CRAFT CHAMPION: Tom Little (Kerry ETB), Terri Sweeney Meade (OPW), category winner Darragh O’Sullivan (OPW), and Donal Keys (WorldSkills Ireland) at the RDS in Dublin.
Jessica Cronin donates hair for children’s charity
Ten-year-old Killarney resident Jessica Cronin is set to cut and donate 12 inches of her hair to support young cancer patients, alongside a fundraising campaign for LauraLynn Children’s Hospice.
The hair donation will go directly to the Little Princess Trust, a charity providing real hair wigs free of charge to children and young people who have lost their own hair through medical treatment.
Alongside her hair donation, Jessica is collecting financial contributions for LauraLynn through the Locks of Love campaign.
“I want to help somebody that doesn’t have something that I have, hair,” Jessica said.
Her family expressed their pride in her decision to support both organisations.
“We are all so proud of her,” her mother, Grace O’Shea-Cronin, said. “Any donation, no matter how small, would be greatly appreciated.”
Donations to support Jessica’s fundraiser can be made online at
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