North-South match for Sonya Britton Trophy returns after three-year absence
Jackie and John Flynn won the Ciara Burns memorial competition for intermediate grade players in Belfast on Sunday. Photograph: iStockIrish juniors Luca Crone and Matthew O’Farrell finished sixth in the President’s Cup at the European Transnational Youth Championships in Veldhoven, the Netherlands which finished on Saturday – only a week after the pair featured in the final of a major American tournament in Chicago.
Along with Isabel Burke and Tom Gorey they also competed in the under-26 championship. Phedra Kingston and David Coyne contested the under-21 event. Netherlands and Greece were the leading medal winners across the eight championship events decided. Jackie and John Flynn won the Ciara Burns memorial competition for intermediate grade players in Belfast on Sunday. Maureen Kelly and Mandy Degan were second, Brian Mullan and Toni Bradley third.
The annual North-vSouth match for the Sonya Britton Trophy will be played on Saturday and Sunday, August 12th and 13th at La Mon hotel in Belfast following a three-year absence from the fixtures calendar due to the Covid pandemic. Six teams of four players, representing different grades of players, will line out for each side. A new feature of the match will be the addition of a junior side.
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