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Girls All-Ireland finals 2019

June 17, 2019 / Brendan / Uncategorized

Congratulations to St. Mary’s N.S. Donnybrook who became only the 2nd ever winner of the Cronin Cup. The top teams from the tournament qualified for the semi-finals.  This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is IMG_1040-1024x768.jpg

St. Rapheala’s Dublin played against Clairnbridge Galway, the match was a draw 2-2 and St. Rapheala’s progressed on a tie break. In the other Semi St. Marys eliminated last years champions from Craughwell Co. Galway on a score of 3-1.

Galway teams played out the 3rd & 4th placed match, which was a 2-2 draw .. once again Clairnbridge were on the wrong side of the “countback” and Craughwell took 3rd place.

St. Mary’s had their toughest match of the day in the final aganist St. Rapheala’s but after a long match experience and class got the new champions home.

This image has an empty alt attribute; its file name is IMG_1035-1024x768.jpgStar player awards .. the best performer on each team earned a ‘star’ player prize.

The Shield Competion was for all the teams that did not qualify for the semifinals where other teams continued with their league matches.

In this event St. Rapheala’s continued their impressive play and were 1st & 2nd.   There was a tie for 3rd, and in a blitz play-off match  St. Catherine’s ‘Queens’ defeated Scoil ide’s ‘the Queens’ to take a well deserved podium finish.

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School Chess Calendar 2020-21:

(1) Teachers Online Chess Club:

  • There are two groups:
  • One for beginners  and another for teachers who can play chess.
  • Monday’s at 8pm.
  • Join anytime from now until May 2021.

 

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(2) The ficheall.ie School Chess challenge matches.

Being played in  March / April 2021. Teachers you can register their students here:

ficheall.ie/online-tournaments-for-students/

 

(3) The Comhar Linn Online School Chess Championships:

  • Starting at 6.30pm on Thursday the 22nd of April. .
  • The Grand Final is on Thursday, 13th of May 2021.

Step 1 – just register your students on  lichess.org More dtails to follow on the 14th of April.  

(4) The ficheall.ie summer CPD chess course:

This a 5 day course (4 hours each day), which will be held online this year.

For more details go to: www.ficheall.ie

 

(5) Chess 4 Fun, Teacher evening course:

From October 2020 to March 2021.  These free evening CPD courses will return in October 2021.

These training evenings are given in partnership with the Education Centre network.

 

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