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IRISH JUNIOR MAKES FINAL IN GB JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL EVENT |
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Written by Mark Dennehy
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Wednesday, 08 August 2007 |
National Target Shooting Association ltd
National Governing Body for Olympic Rifle & Pistol Target Shooting in Ireland
CONTACT DETAILS
Mark Dennehy
Secretary, NTSA
email: secretary@targetshootingireland.org
web: http://www.targetshootingireland.org
PHOTOS:
Shane Flynn shooting during the Finals in today's GB Junior Men's Air Rifle International event.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
IRISH JUNIOR MAKES FINAL IN GB JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL EVENT
Bisley Camp, Surrey, UK, August 8 -- Shane Flynn, 19, from Meath, qualified for the finals in the Junior Men's Air Rifle match today in the 15th Annual GB Junior International event. Despite his not placing for a medal in the finals, Team Coach Geoff Cooney was exuberient. "This was Shane's second ever international, his first ever international finals and he held his nerve, delivered a better finals performance than the overall winner and clawed back two places up until the last two shots when the superior experience of the South African and British teams just took over. He'll do much better at his next match on Thursday", said Geoff Cooney, who is also Shane's domestic coach.
Damien Fagan, the second Irish Junior shooting in the Junior Men's Air Rifle match, was dealt a cruel blow by technical glitches when another shooter's score was initially totalled incorrectly, thus placing Damien in the ten-shot finals; only to be corrected twenty minutes later. Damien was not the only one on the team feeling gutshot by this. "We were all looking at our sending two Irish shooters into the match and having both in the finals", said Mark Dennehy, Team Manager. "That one hadn't qualified would be upsetting, but that both would be listed as qualified and the status of one later redacted was a bit of a body blow".
Meanwhile, the spectre of the Foot and Mouth outbreak is constantly in the background on the camp. Breakfasts are spent watching breaking news bulletins about the outbreak and the work being done to contain it and speculation is rife about whether or not the competition will be able to complete due to limitations from the foot and mouth containment procedures. Thus far, we have escaped the worst of it, but noone knows how much longer that will continue.
The International continues tomorrow at 0800 when the Junior Women take to the line to compete against 7 other nations.
The Irish Junior Shooting Team is:
Team Officials:
Mark Dennehy, Team Manager
Geoff Cooney, Team Coach
Marina Cunningham, Team Childrens Officer
Team Shooters:
Women's Air Rifle:
Susan Cunningham (currently the Irish National Champion in Women's Air Rifle)
Paula Cunningham
Elizabeth O'Hagan
Men's Air Rifle:
Damien Fagan (currently the Irish National Champion in Men's Air Rifle)
Shane Flynn
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