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All-Ireland Schools Finals 2019

June 18, 2019 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Congratulations to St. Mary’s of haddington Rd. Dublin on a 3-in-a-row as All-Ireland champions at primary school level. Pictured below, this team has 3 (or mayybe it’s 4 Irish international player) in their line up !

Cross Table:

 

School

 

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Total Place
1 St Mary’s 1 5.5

              8

2 6.5

               4

3 4.5

               2

4 6

               3

  5 6.5

               6

 5 29  1st
3  

St Catherine’s

 

1 6

             10

2 6

               7

3 7

               9

3 2

               1

   4 4.5

               2

 4 25.5  2nd
4  

St Patrick’s

 

1 7.5

             11

1 1.5

               1

2 6

            12

   2 2.5

              6

   3 7.5

              5

 3 25  3rd
2  

St Laurence’s

 

1 5.5

               9

2 6.5

               6

2 3.5

               1

3 5

               8

  3 3.5

               3

 3 24  4th
8  

Carysfort

 

0 2.5

              1

1 6

               5

2 6

              7

2 3

              2

   3 6.5

            10

 

3 24

    

5th
6 Harold Boys

 

1 7

            13

1 1.5

              2

2 8

             10

  3 5.5

             4

  3 1.5

              1

 3 23.5 6th
13 Mhic Amhlaigh 0 1

              6

0 3

             12

1 6

            14

  2 5

               7

     3 4.5

            11

 3 19.5 7th
11 Strandtown 0 0.5

             4

0 3

             10

1 6

              5

2 7

             12

    2 3.5

            13

 2 20 8th
9 Scoil Bhríde 0 2.5

             2

1 7

             14

11

             3

1 2

              5

2 5

             7

 2 17.5 9th
12 Manorhamilton 0 3.5

              5

1 5

             13

1 2

              4

    1 1

             14

   2 5

            14

 2 16.5 10th
5 Ennis 1 4.5

            12

1 2

              8

1 2

             11

2 6

              9

  2 0.5

               4

2 15 11th
10  

Mhichíl Cíosóg

 

0 2

             3

1 5

             11

1 0

              6

  2 5.5

            14

   2 1.5

             8

 2 14 12th
7 St James 1 8

            14

1 2

              3

1 2

             8

1 3

             13

    1 3

               9

 1 18 13th
14 ScoilFhursa 0 0

              7

0 1

               9

0 2

             13

     0 2.5

             10

    0 3

            12

 0 8.5 14th

Everything was still to play for going into the final round, St Mary’s had a comfortable win against a very solid Harold Boys team; while St Catherine’s had a nail-bitingly close (4½-3½) win against St Laurence’s. St Patrick’s Galway, finished with a big points win over Ennis N.S. 7½-½.  Which brought them up to 3 match points and a 6 way tie in 3rd place with St Laurence’s, Carysfort, Harold Boys (all from Dublin) and Gaelsoil Mhic Amhlaigh (Galway).  St. Pat’s placed 3rd having scored 25 game points just 1 game point ahead of St Laurence’s & Carysfort who both in turn tied for 4th place with 24 game points. St Laurence’s won the 4th place trophies having beaten Carysford in their head to head match by 5 pts. to 3 pts.

Above are the St. Catherine’s team who continue to improve as have all of the other schools this year.

There were many other excellent team and individual performances on the day. And for every team who finished outside the top 4 teams their best players went home with a prize.  The winners of the “star player” medals were:

Eoin Prendergast and Jack McNulty from Scoil Fhursa, Oscar Roe from Bushy Park, Conall MacCárthaigh from Gaelscoil Mhichíl Cíosóg,  Ronan Kilroy and Egor Gulyants from Ennis NS, Sion Aji from Manorhamilton, John Danaher, Daniel Murphy and James Griffin from Scoil Bhríde, Dexter Harris from Strandtown Primary (a superb 4½/5 on Board 1!), Donnacha Naughton from Gaelscoil Mhic Amhlaigh, Chenjie Long, Diarmuid Power and David O’Connor from Harold Boys, and Adam O’Connor and Dylan O’Connor from Carysfort NS (Dylan scored 100% – 5 pts.).

Pictured above are some of the star players (medals) with the 3rd placed team St. Pats – the Galway lads !

The tournament was jointly organised by Brendan Buckley and April Cronin, and the tournament controller / arbiter was the ever-calm and authoritative Lukasz Goralski. The young players enjoyed the event immensely, showing that children relish a challenge. These were the best playing the best, and they knew it!

Any chess school teams interested in participating next year, do put us in touch with them. April Cronin can be contacted at aprilmarycronin@gmail.com and Brendan Buckley at brendan@chessossity.com.

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Play for Ukraine:

A positive way for Irish kids to help Ukrainian refugees who are arriving in Ireland.

Our chosen charity  is the Assoc. of Ukrainians in Ireland (click here for more info AURI).

Please contact a school or club in your community and ask them to host an event where kids can mix and play sports / games.

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