UL Fencing Club

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Thu, 08 Apr 2010 15:37:11 +0100

Intervarsities complete!

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:21:00 +0000

Team Interversaties are completed. The University fielded a team of 3 men and 2 women for the team event to success. New pictures are included in the picture link on the right. Congratulations to all who competed, hope a good time was had by all!

Results of AGM!

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 15:10:26 +0000

Results of AGM! Thanks to all members who attended :)

1. Committee selection - New Committee members, Mark, Miriam, Munir, Hugh and Noel elected!

2. Training location - training is being returned to the main hall until we get kicked out

3. Financial and fundraising - several ideas raised and shall be looked into

4. A.O.B. - New constitution and safety documents passed!

Training back on Tuesday and Thursday in the main hall of the PESS building! We need women for the team intraversaties on the 27th!

The RETURN

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:29:00 +0000

Hi y’all,

We’re starting training again this Thursday coming with Tristan from 6-8pm in the PESS building as per usual. Tristan has asked me that the people who were training last semester come in the 7-8 slot so we can begin training new members from scratch in the 6-7 slot, but this will begin in the second week. For this week everyone can come to either (or both) times as they wish.

Hope y’all had a good Christmas and a happy New Year!

Mark

P.S. there are several competitions coming up soon and we need teams!

West of Ireland Competition

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:12:00 +0100

The West of Ireland Competition is on in Dangan, near NUIG on the 24th and 25th of October. The plan of action concocted so far is…

To take the 8.30 bus from Limerick to Galway and arrive before 11.45 (everyone get student cards!!!). Yep, an early Saturday morning. Expect your alarm to be set for 7.30…

At 11.30 the womens epee event kicks off. Aya is the only fencer for the womens team, with Caitlin, Katie and Nicola cheering her on (I suppose the lads better too, eh? :P )

After the competition, NUIG are hosting everyone for a dinner in a location yet to be disclosed.

Mark, Diarmuid and Anthony are competiting in the mens epee then on Sunday morning with the others either staying in bed with sore heads or cheering us on with sore heads.

And finally we all return home (or those who aren’t, don’t). Finale :)

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Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:34:24 +0100

Training

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:48:00 +0100

Hi once again to all, and a big hello to all new (and soon to be new) members to the University of Limerick fencing club. Training will begin (confirmed) on Thursday, the 17th of September. This will give people time to settle in on the first week back and then get into fencing on the second week. No equipment is required, just bring a pair of comfotable runners and tracksuit with you to training. Membership for the entire two semesters (which will include every training session and equipment is €5 for UL students (alumini and non-UL students should enquire to ulfencing@gmail.com). There are some minor changes to the training schedule as follows;

Training times (with coach Tristan Paris) for beginners is on Thursdays 6-7 in the main sports hall of the PESS building (also called the Sports Building and National Coaching and Training Centre) Click here for map (number 19)
Training times (with coach again) for intermediates and above is on Thursdays 7-8 in the main sports hall of the PESS building.
Uncoached training is now on Tuesdays between 6-8 in the main sports hall of the PESS building.

I’ve added a few events and competions to the website (plenty more to come) along with a few other stuff here and there. We will also be having a stall up at the clubs and societies recruitment day on the 9th of September in the arena during orientation week so keep an eye out for us and feel free to come along and harass us!

Looking forward to seeing you all next semester!

Mark

Useful websites

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:53:00 +0000

Check out the newly added useful websites - the Irish fencing forum and the Irish student fencers association. The other fencing clubs in Ireland are particularly into using the forum as their main mode of communication so join up and stay informed!

Friendly competition with Cork clubs

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:00:00 +0000

We’re going to go to Cork on Sunday 26th April for a friendly competition with UCC and Cyrano fencing clubs. Let us know if you’re interested in going! We haven’t sorted out all the details of it yet but just keep it in mind!

News

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:00:00 +0000

The news in brief for this fine week of 8-14March,

Tristan is having problems of his own again this week and I quote “my turbo pump has blown so there will be no way I can make training on Thursday” (on his car for those who are wondering). But hey, stercus accidit, so we’ll just have to train without him.

Also, the individual intervarsities is on the 21st and 22nd of March in Maynooth, there are more details on the website in the events section, have a think about it and let us know at training.

Mark.

Have You seen This Man? Tristan can’t make it this week. But...

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:05:00 +0000

Have You seen This Man?

Tristan can’t make it this week. But we’ll soldier on without him!

More importantly we’ll be heading to the pub afterwards, where there will be a FREE DRINK and finger food.

INTERVARSITIES SOON!

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:00:00 +0000

The fencing intervarsities are on the weekend of 27th Feb-1st Mar in Coleraine, Derry. We wanna take a mens and a womens team so if you’re interested let me know! Even if you don’t wanna compete and just wanna go along to support and see what it’s all about you’re welcome to do so. Intervarsities are great fun so make sure you don’t go through college without having experienced at least one!

Miriam

Latest news – change in training times

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:00:00 +0000

The arena staff had been double-booking the sprinting track on Wednesdays for the past two weeks so apologies to anyone who was caught up in that mess. Training is now rescheduled to run from 5-7 on Wednesdays and as usual, Tristan Parris will be coaching the Thursday training sessions (6-7 for beginners and from 7-8 for the intermediates). Training is still in the usual place, on the indoor sprint track in the arena.

There will also be a demonstration in the UL courtyard tomorrow (Wednesday 11th February) at 12 high noon. If you are interested come along, and if you’re passing stop by to say hello and to cheer on the fencers!

See ya!
Mark