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IRISH JUNIOR WINS SILVER MEDAL 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
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Mark Dennehy
Secretary, NTSA
email: secretary@targetshootingireland.org
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PHOTOS:
Susan Cunningham winning the Silver Medal in the Junior Women's Air Rifle match in the GB Junior International Event today.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
IRISH JUNIOR WINS SILVER MEDAL IN GB JUNIOR INTERNATIONAL EVENT
Bisley Camp, Surrey, UK, August 9 -- There were hugs and tears of joy today in Bisley as Susan Cunningham, 17, from Meath, won the Silver Medal in the Junior Women's Air Rifle match today in the 15th Annual GB Junior International event. Irish Junior Shooting Team Coach Geoff Cooney and Susan's personal coach, Matt Fox were overcome with emotion. "This is the reward for years of hard work and extraordinary committment by Susan and the other juniors" said Geoff. "Every last one of them is a hero for getting up on that line in front of hundreds of people and shooting at all. Taking a medal, that's just unbelievable".
Also to make the finals was Elizabeth O'Hagan, 20, from Tyrone. "It was a good finals but I kept dropping shots slightly too low" she said. Matt Fox, who is the personal coach for all three Junior Women who entered today's match, agreed. "Liz shot a tremendous match today, and she has still a lot of potential that we just have to tap into and put out there on the line. I'm shocking proud of every last one of the girls today, they've done themselves proud, they've done me proud, and they've done their country proud."
Just pipped from joining her sister and her teammates in the finals was Paula Cunningham, who set a personal best for this competition. "Paula and her younger sister Laura represent the next wave of Irish Juniors coming up the ranks" said Mark Dennehy, the Irish Junior Shooting Team Manager, "along with Jim O'Hagan and Neill Fagan and several others who are sitting back in Ireland watching the results of this match rolling in at the moment. But the next wave after them hasn't yet been found. They're out there, feeling left out of the power and speed sports, mines of untapped potential. It's shocking that we can't try to find these future olympic athletes until a point where other nations would have been training them for five or six years allready."
At the time of writing this press release, technical difficulties have prevented a final official posting of the Team results, but it seems certain at this point that the Irish team has placed highly enough to take at least the Silver medal in the team event, adding another medal to their tally for this event.
Meanwhile, the Foot and Mouth outbreak continues to dominate thoughts throughout the camp. Disfectant mats and spraying have made an appearance this morning and tensions over whether or not the competition's last day of shooting tomorrow can go ahead are rising, and the matter is being decided at the highest level, by a committee chaired by Prime Minister Brown.
The International hopefully finishes tomorrow at 0800 when the Junior Men and the Junior Women take to the line to compete against 7 other nations in a Grand Prix event.
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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