Best of luck to the member of Taekwondo Ireland heading off to the Swindon today for the PUMA Open World Championships. Thanks to Steven Nyhan for the following information. Give em hell lads/ladies.
There is great excitement in Taekwondo Irelands Carrigaline club as some of the students have been preparing to travel to Swindon in the United Kingdom to compete in the 3rd PUMA open World Taekwondo Championships.
The organizers have informed us that there are over six hundred competitors from all over Europe already registered for the coming weekend.
Carrigaline Taekwondo club have seven junior students traveling, who are competing in both Patterns and Sparring. They have been training very hard all year for this competition and putting in extra classes during the week and squad training at the weekend.
Two of the black belts, Amy O’Sullivan and Rebecca McGrath competed in this competition two years ago and had some great success taking places in both the patterns and sparring sections. While this will be a first for the remaining five students, Eoghan Harrington, Pierre Morcos, Luke O Donovan, Megan Austin and Chloe McGrath, they have all been regularly placed in the medals on the Taekwondo Ireland competition trail which has helped them to build up their confidence and experience for the bigger circuits.
Great sport was had at one of the clubs fundraising events, a kick-a-thon held on 15th March with all the club juniors getting involved to create a fun day and to support their team mates.
Club Instructors,6th Degree Mr Michael Burke and 2nd Degree Ms Angela Burke would like to thank all of the parents and students and local sponsors’ who made a huge effort for fundraising for this event
Liam-Og Griffin 